2012 House Bill 5621

Revise commercial rental property assessment occupancy formula

Introduced in the House

May 10, 2012

Introduced by Rep. Jud Gilbert (R-81)

To eliminate a cap on the maximum amount that tax assessors can raise the assessment of rental property due to a higher occupancy rate, if the assessment had been previously lowered as a result of a lower occupancy rate. A 2002 Supreme Court ruling (WPW vs. Troy) held that raising these assessments faster than inflation violates the Constitutional tax cap put in place by Proposal A in 1994, which limits assessment increases to five percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.

Referred to the Committee on Tax Policy

May 16, 2012

Reported without amendment

Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.