A Reader's Comment About Assessing

Dear Concerned Citizen;

If you are truly a Lisbon Concerned Citizen you would take the time to read the State Statues regarding the responsibilities of the Assessor.  Mr. Dow is doing his job in accordance with the statues, requesting information concerning personal property has nothing to do with the revaluation process.  Each resident is required to submitted a true and perfect list of all real property and personal property, and if they do not they can be barred from requesting an abatement for taxes – this is the law why don’t you check for information before posting something that is wrong, it is people like you who likes to stir up issues without knowing the facts.

If you are truly a Lisbon Concerned Citizen use your name on these post, I am not afraid to let the citizens know who I am and that when someone hides behind a label that the information that they want to be put out is one sided.  Now show yourself.

Clyde Cavender

Local Taxpayer 

36 §706. TAXPAYERS TO LIST PROPERTY,
NOTICE, PENALTY, VERIFICATION
36 §706. TAXPAYERS TO LIST PROPERTY, NOTICE, PENALTY,
VERIFICATION
Before making an assessment, the assessor or assessors, the chief assessor of a primary assessing area
or the State Tax Assessor in the case of the unorganized territory may give seasonable notice in writing to all
persons liable to taxation in the municipality, primary assessing area or the unorganized territory to furnish to
the assessor or assessors, chief assessor or State Tax Assessor true and perfect lists of all their estates, not by
law exempt from taxation, of which they were possessed on the first day of April of the same year. [1977,
c. 509, §13 (RPR).]
The notice to owners may be by mail directed to the last known address of the taxpayer or by any other
method that provides reasonable notice to the taxpayer. [1977, c. 509, §13 (RPR).]
If notice is given by mail and the taxpayer does not furnish the list, he is barred of his right to make
application to the assessor or assessors, chief assessor or State Tax Assessor or any appeal therefrom for any
abatement of his taxes, unless he furnishes the list with his application and satisfies them that he was unable
to furnish it at the time appointed. [1981, c. 30, §1 (RPR).]

The assessor or assessors, chief assessor or State Tax Assessor may require the person furnishing the list
to make oath to its truth, which oath any of them may administer, and may require him to answer in writing
all proper inquiries as to the nature, situation and value of his property liable to be taxed in the State; and a
refusal or neglect to answer such inquiries and subscribe the same bars an appeal, but such list and answers
shall not be conclusive upon the assessor or assessors, chief assessor or the State Tax Assessor. [1977, c.
50, §13 (RPR).]

If the assessor or assessors, chief assessor or the State Tax Assessor fail to give notice by mail, the
taxpayer is not barred of his right to make application for abatement provided that upon demand the taxpayer
shall answer in writing all proper inquiries as to the nature, situation and value of his property liable to be
taxed in the State; and a refusal or neglect to answer the inquiries and subscribe the same bars an appeal, but
the list and answers shall not be conclusive upon the assessor or assessors, chief assessor or the State Tax
Assessor. [1981, c. 30, §2 (RPR).]
SECTION HISTORY
1969, c. 579, §§3-5 (AMD). 1973, c. 536, §23 (AMD). 1973, c. 620, §16
(AMD). 1973, c. 695, §12 (RPR). 1975, c. 623, §54 (AMD). 1977, c. 509,
§13 (RPR). 1981, c. 30, §§1,2 (AMD).

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