Special Assessment Tax

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A Special Assessment Tax is a monetary charge added to the property tax when a real property has benefited from public improvement.



References

2016

  • (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ Retrieved December 11, 2016 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_assessment_tax
    • Special assessment is the term used in the United States to designate a unique charge that government units can assess against real estate parcels for certain public projects. This charge is levied in a specific geographic area known as a special assessment district (SAD). A special assessment may only be levied against parcels of real estate which have been identified as having received a direct and unique "benefit" from the public project.[1] (...) The most universally known special assessments, are charges levied against lands when drinking water lines are installed; when sewer lines are installed; or when streets are paved with concrete or some other impervious surface. However, special assessment tax levies can be made for other purposes including police or fire protection, parking structures, street lighting and many of the other purposes permitted by state and local government statutes.




  • (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/betterment Retrieved:2016-10-21.
    • Betterment, making better, is a general term used particularly in connection with the increased value given to real property by causes for which a tenant or the public, but not the owner, is responsible; it is thus of the nature of unearned increment. When, for instance, some public improvement results in raising the value of a piece of private land, and the owner is thereby bettered through no merit of his own, he gains by the betterment, and many economists and politicians have sought to arrange, by taxation or otherwise, that the increased value shall come into the pocket of the public rather than into the owner's. A betterment tax would be assessed in order to divert from the owner of the property the profit thus accruing unearned to him. The whole problem is one of the incidence of taxation and the question of land values, and various applications of the principle of betterment have been tried in the United States and in England, raising considerable controversy from time to time.


  • (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/property_tax Retrieved:2016-10-5.
    • (...) A special assessment tax is sometimes confused with property tax. These are two distinct forms of taxation: one (ad valorem tax) relies upon the fair market value of the property being taxed for justification, and the other (special assessment) relies upon a special enhancement called a "benefit" for its justification. The property tax rate is often given as a percentage. It may also be expressed as a per mil (amount of tax per thousand currency units of property value), which is also known as a millage rate or mill (which is also one-thousandth of a currency unit).

2008


  1. Kadzban v City of Grandville, 502 N.W.2d 299, 501; Davies v City of Lawrence, 218 Kan. 551, 545 P 2d 1115, 1120; State v City of Newark, 27 N.J. Law, 190.