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Last Updated: Monday January 21, 2008
WaylandeNews Property Assessment and Tax History
Background
There has been an abundance of press coverage recently regarding local property tax growth, and the difficulties municipalities are facing managing cost growth in utilities and insurance after state aid cuts all under the constraints of Proposition 2 1/2. Statewide, cities and towns have seen tax increases over that time period ranging from 4% in Hancock to 277% in Erving. (If you didn't know there was a Hancock or an Erving, you might be more interested in the median growth of 53% in Uxbridge, or an average across the cities and towns of 57%). Wayland's growth over that period has been 65%. To view the distribution of tax growth in cities and towns across the Commonwealth, click here.
Given the interest in tax growth, you might want to know the number for your property. How much has your tax growth been from 2000 to 2008? How much has your assessment increased over that time period?
Resources. Useful resources to investigate taxes across the Commonwealth:
Assessment and Tax History Tool
No records found. Try including less of the name (e.g., do not include ST or Street)To see assessment and tax history for a specific address, enter the address in the field below and click on the "Submit Query" button. If you enter a partial address (e.g., part of the road name, or a road name without a street number), the result will be all addresses containing the text (e.g., enter "Main" and you'll get addresses on Main St.) Up to 15 properties will be displayed at a time. Do not enter the "Road" or "Lane" at the end of the address. "No records found" will be displayed when information is unavailable. We have done our best to provide as accurate a tool as possible, but please do inform us if you find any errors in the data.
The chart for each property will show year by year assessment data, tax bill data, year by year tax percentage growth, accumulated percentage growth since 2000 and an annualized rate of growth (that is, the average rate experienced over the time period). You will find that the tax growth on most homes exceeds inflation, and may wonder why. In a period in which we are facing an aging workforce (and large number of retirees), skyrocketing health insurance and utility costs, an increase in state mandated education programs, reduced local aid, etc., it should not come as a surprise that our municipal costs to provide level services have grown faster than inflation.
A few notes:
We have not incorporated information on abatement data, so in a small number of cases actual taxes (for individual years) may be lower.
Note that if an address is comprised of multiple parcels, these have been aggregated into one entry (this affects a very small number of properties). If you live at such a parcel that is not broken out into individual parcels, and would like information for individual pieces, please contact us. Alternatively, you might try Alan Reiss' tax tool (note: this requires a large file download, and works only on a Windows PC), which handles parcels by parcel-ID.