Posts by Kevin Rudden
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Q” What happened to the new exemption for seniors that we voted on at Town Meeting a few years ago?
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Read MoreWhy did my property taxes go up by more than 2½% this year?
Why did my property taxes go up by more than 2½% this year? Doesn’t Proposition
2½ limit the increase?
Ask the Assessor: March
Ask the Assessor: March
Read MoreWhy did the value of my property go up this year?
Massachusetts law and Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) regulations require that property be assessed at 100% of full and fair market value each year. This is unlike other states that require a revaluation once every so many years. In those states, your value remains constant until that revaluation year. For example, my son who lives…
Read MoreWhy do I only have one month’s time to ask for an abatement on my property value?
Ask the Assessor January 2024
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Ask the Assessor for December 2023
Read MoreNew Tax Rate Certified at $15.06 per Thousand Dollars of Valuation
The Massachusetts Department of Revenue has certified the town’s Fiscal Year 2024 tax rate at $15.06 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation. A listing of new property valuations is available on the Assessors’ page of the town’s website by clicking on the “FY24 Valuation List” button on the left side of the web page. The…
Read MorePUBLIC HEARING NOTICE – TOWN OF HOLLISTON, MA
Per Massachusetts General Law Chapter 40, Section 56, the Holliston Select Board will hold a
public Tax Classification hearing on Monday, November 15, 2023, at 7:00 PM in Room 105 at
Holliston Town Hall and via the Zoom webconference platform.
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November Ask the Assessor
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“Why do I have to pay an auto excise tax each year?”
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Question: “How do you calculate the value of my home?” Answer: All residential property in Holliston is valued annually using standards from the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) and – even more important – from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR)’s Division of Local Services (DLS). The DLS approves every step we take throughout the annual…
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Question: “What are personal property taxes?” Answer: Property can be either real property or personal property. In simple terms, real property is land and buildings. Personal property, on the other hand, refers to “movable” items such as furniture, equipment, electronic devices, pipes and wires. In Massachusetts, personal property owned by certain individuals and businesses can…
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This month, Holliston’s Principal Assessor answers the question, “Are commercial/industrial property values calculated differently from residential property values?”
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Holliston’s Principal Assessor answers the question, “Am I old enough to get a senior citizen property tax reduction?”
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Holliston’s Principal Assessor shares the fifth installment of “Ask the Assessor” in which he answers the question: “I’ve done nothing to my house. So, why did my assessment go up?”
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Principal Assessor Kevin Rudden shares the fourth in his monthly posts, “Ask the Assessor.” He answers the following question, “If I let an Assessor inspect my property, will my taxes go up?”
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This month, Principal Assessor Kevin Rudden answers familiar question.
Question: “Why are the tax bills due in the first half of the calendar year higher than the two before them?”
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Holliston’s Principal Assessor, Kevin Rudden, answers the question: What’s the difference between an abatement and an exemption?
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Publishers Chris and Yvette Cain have offered me the opportunity to explain how the assessing process works. For this first article, I’m going to answer two questions people have been asking us this month as they come to Town Hall to pay their property tax bills.
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