Assessing Services Provided by: V&V Assessing, LLC
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Assessor Edward Vandervries can be contacted by phone at 1-269-720-1928 or by email at evandervries@hotmail.com
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Deputy Assessor Vickie Warner is in the Laketon Township Hall on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:30 to 4:30. She can be contacted by phone in the office (231-744-2454) on these days. She can be contacted by email at: assessor@laketon.org
PROPOSED 2023 Laketon Township Assessment Roll - Ad Valorem - Click Here
PROPOSED 2023 Laketon Township Assessment Roll - Special Acts - Click Here
2023 ECF - Economic Condition Factors, by neighborhood
Personal Property Info & Forms
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Personal Property Tax Statement -- For those required to file on personal property (Those with a True Cash Value of $80,000 or more). Due to be turned in to the local assessor by in February each year.
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Small Business Personal Property Tax Exemption Affidavit -- For those with a combined true cash value of less than $80,000. This form must be completed and turned in to the local assesor by no later than February each year.
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Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property Tax Exemption Affidavit & Personal Property Tax Combined Statement - For those that qualify. Qualifications are listed in the instructions of the document . This form must be completed and turned in to the local assessor by no later than February each year.
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Board of Review Forms
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March Board of Review Petition Form (form L-4035) - This form is required to be completed and turned in to make an Appeal to the March Board of Review. Click Here for the Form.
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Poverty Exemption Affidavit (Form# 4988) - This form is only required for persons that are not required to and DO NOT file Federal or State Income Tax Returns
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Poverty Exemption Application Checklist - This from will help in getting together copies of all the documentation of income and expenses required to accompany the application forms. This list will also be used by staff to account for all required documents with such an application. Please follow all instructions on all documents and if you have any questions - please call Laketon Township.
Other Tax Forms:
For more property tax information and other forms, visit the State of Michigan website - CLICK HERE
The Assessing Department has several dates set by law to complete certain activities.
Assessing Notice - A Notice of Assessment is sent out for each property every year at least 10 days prior to the March Board of Review. This is usually sometime in the last week of February.
March Board of Review - This board meets every year in March to hear property value appeals/protests from property owners as well as hear and act on poverty exemptions and disabled veterans exemptions. The Board of Review shall meet on the second Monday in March for the purpose of hearing taxpayer appeals. The governing body of a Township may authorize an alternative starting date for this meeting, either the Tuesday or the Wednesday following the second Monday in March. Laketon Township holds the March Board of Review on two days, one day from 9am to 3pm and one day from 3pm to 9pm, by appointment. This is the only time you may appeal/protest your property value (SEV). If you do not appeal your value to the March Board of Review, you are not able to take your appeal to the tax tribunal.
July Board of Review - The July Board meets on the Tuesday following the third Monday in July if there is business to conduct. Only appeals regarding qualified errors of the roll, poverty exemptions and disabled veterans exemptions are heard in July.
December Board of Review - The December Board meets on the Tuesday following the second Monday in December if there is business to conduct. Only appeals regarding qualified errors of the roll, poverty exemptions and disabled veterans exemptions are heard in December.