BOARD OF ASSESSMENT APPEALS

The Manchester Board of Assessment Appeals is an appointed body empowered by State Statute to hear and decide appeals of property assessments. The Board meets during the month of March to hear appeals of real estate, personal property, and motor vehicles on the supplemental list (vehicles billed in January.) Application must be made by February 20 for a hearing during the Board's March sessions.

MOTOR VEHICLE APPEALS
Board of Assessment Appeals Hearings (Motor Vehicles Only) will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008.
All hearings will be held at the Assessor’s Office, Manchester Town Hall, 41 Center Street, Manchester, CT
Download a copy of the Motor Vehicle appeal form here.

All appeal applications received by the Assessor’s Office by Friday, August 29, 2008 at 4:30 PM will be scheduled for a hearing time.  Hearings will be scheduled in 10-minute increments.  All appeal applications filed between August 30, 2008 and September 13, 2008 will be held on a first come, first served basis, beginning at approximately 11:00 AM.   If you are not pre-scheduled for a hearing and are in the first-come, first-served group, please bring this form to your hearing, after completing it.  

REAL ESTATE APPEALS
The appeal period for real estate assessments billed in July 2008 -2nd half payable January 2009 (the 10/1/2007 Grand List) - has passed. The deadline to file an appeal was February 20, 2008
Appeal decisions are not retroactive.
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Connecticut General Statute Section 12-111 - Appeals to board of assessment appeals. (a) Any person, including any lessee of real property whose lease has been recorded as provided in section 47-19 and who is bound under the terms of a lease to pay real property taxes and any person to whom title to such property has been transferred since the assessment date, claiming to be aggrieved by the doings of the assessors of such town may appeal therefrom to the board of assessment appeals. Such appeal shall be filed, in writing, on or before February twentieth. The written appeal shall include, but is not limited to, the property owner's name, name and position of the signer, description of the property which is the subject of the appeal, name and mailing address of the party to be sent all correspondence by the board of assessment appeals, reason for the appeal, appellant's estimate of value, signature of property owner, or duly authorized agent of the property owner, and date of signature. The board shall notify each aggrieved taxpayer who filed a written appeal in the proper form and in a timely manner, no later than March first immediately following the assessment date, of the date, time and place of the appeal hearing. Such notice shall be sent no later than seven calendar days preceding the hearing date except that the board may elect not to conduct an appeal hearing for any commercial, industrial, utility or apartment property with an assessed value greater than five hundred thousand dollars. The board shall, not later than March first, notify the appellant that the board has elected not to conduct an appeal hearing. The board shall determine all such appeals and send written notification of the final determination of such appeals to each such person within one week after such determination has been made. Such written notification shall include information describing the property owner's right to appeal the determination of such board. Such board may equalize and adjust the grand list of such town and may increase or decrease the assessment of any taxable property or interest therein and may add an assessment for property omitted by the assessors which should be added thereto; and may add to the grand list the name of any person omitted by the assessors and owning taxable property in such town, placing therein all property liable to taxation which it has reason to believe is owned by such person, at the percentage of its actual valuation, as determined by the assessors in accordance with the provisions of sections 12-64 and 12-71, from the best information that it can obtain, and if such property should have been included in the declaration, as required by section 12-42 or 12-43, it shall add thereto twenty-five per cent of such assessment; but, before proceeding to increase the assessment of any person or to add to the grand list the name of any person so omitted, it shall mail to such person, postage paid, at least one week before making such increase or addition, a written or printed notice addressed to such person at the town in which such person resides, to appear before such board and show cause why such increase or addition should not be made.

(b) If an extension is granted to any assessor or board of assessors pursuant to section 12-117, the date by which a taxpayer shall be required to submit a written request for appeal to the board of assessment appeals shall be extended to March twentieth and said board shall conduct hearings regarding such requests during the month of April. The board shall send notification to the taxpayer of the time and date of an appeal hearing at least seven calendar days preceding the hearing date, but no later than the first day of April. If the board elects not to hear an appeal for commercial, industrial, utility or apartment property described in subsection (a) of this section, the board shall notify the taxpayer of such decision no later than the first day of April.