Since you purchased your home last year, your current year taxable value will be "uncapped" and be based on the new State Equalized Value (SEV) for your home.
This is because Michigan voters approved Proposal A in 1994. Property taxes are now calculated on the taxable value of your property. Proposal A amended the Michigan Constitution to limit, or place a "cap" on, increases in the yearly growth of the taxable value for each individual parcel of property. Proposal A states that in the year following a transfer of property, the taxable value will be the property’s State Equalized Value (SEV), regardless of the cap. However, beginning with your next year taxable value, the "cap" is placed back on the taxable value.
It is important to remember that after the first year, the taxable value can only be increased by the Inflation Rate Multiplier (IRM) or 5%, whichever is less, plus the value of additions and losses. This will continue annually "as long as you own the property."
I am claiming the principal residence exemption on the home I just purchased, what happens to the exemption on the home I sold?
If you believe that you qualified for, but did not receive a principal residence exemption for the current year or the immediately preceding three years, you must supply the Assessing office with the following information to qualify for consideration:
A. Three signed copies of the Principal Residence
Exemption Affidavit that was filed with the local
Treasurer.
B. A copy of your deed (showing ownership).
C. A brief letter stating the dates that you owned and
occupied the house as your principal residence and
affirming that you have not been denied a principal
residence exemption by the State of Michigan or the
local assessor.
D. A copy of a utility bill in your name dated prior to June 2
of the year, in which you are seeking an exemption,
mailed to the address of the principal residence.
Properties considered non-principal residence exemption as a result of clerical error or mutual mistake may be corrected at the July or December Board of Review for the current year and the immediately preceding three years. Corrected tax bills will be available after the Board of Review has acted. Taxpayers should address additional questions regarding the homestead exemption and your right of appeal to: Michigan Department of Treasury, Principal Residence Section, PO Box 30440, Lansing, MI 48909 (517) 373-1950, www.michigan.gov/pre.
The Assessing Department must assess the personal property in possession of businesses as of December 31 of the immediately preceding year, which is considered tax day. Personal property is all (but not limited to) furniture, fixtures, machinery, signs, equipment, computers, tools, dies, jigs, leased equipment, leasehold improvements and buildings on leased land. The confidential Personal Property Statement (L-4175), filed by the business owners, is used by the Assessing Department to make a personal property assessment. The statements are mailed the first week in January to businesses operating in the Township. Personal property statements must be completed and delivered to the Assessing office on or before February 20 of each year, even if there is no assessable property to report.
For other Assessing Department information not found here, please visit the
Assessing Department section of the website.