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Northern Michigan Assessing Services
Frank and Dawn Gentz

Phone: (989) 389-0832
Fax: (989) 389-2333
Email: nmiappr@m33access.com

The following are state laws that may affect you:

  1. The time to check your homestead status is immediately after you open your tax bill in December. If you believe you should be 100% homestead and it is 0%, please contact me! The December Board of Review meets Tues. following the second Mon. in Dec. This is the last chance for correction, if you owned and occupied your property before May 1, 2000 you are eligible for 100% homestead. Rented property is not included.
  2. Land Split Laws enacted by the State March 31, 1997, require us to apply to the township supervisor (989-832-7882 supervisor@homertownship.org) for approval BEFORE we sell a piece of our property, unless you have approval from the State of Michigan for a subdivision plat. A building permit can not be issued without split approval. Upon approval (it can take up to 45 days), you will receive new parcel code numbers. If you have a homestead on one of the parcels, FILE A NEW HOMESTEAD FORM with the new parcelnumber.
  3. Voter approval in 1994 brought us proposal A and
    Two new categories for our assessment language:
    Assessed Taxable
    (Is increased or decreased by sales studies--no max) (can only increase the lowest of Consumer Price Index or 5%)
    (This year CPI is ----%)
    TAXES ARE CALCULATED WITH THE TAXABLE)
When a property transfers (new owners) the taxable value now becomes the assessed. This does give the long time home owner a tax advantage. No longer can we compare our tax bills with our neighbors' comparable home and draw tax dollar conclusions.