Forms to Help You Reduce Your Taxes
- Property Tax Abatements
- Board of Property Tax review
- Blind Exemption–$4000 assessed value reduction to the blind.
- Business Equipment tax Exemption Application
- Farm Land– available to those properties used for farming activities
- Homestead Exemption — available to those residential property owners who have certified as to their primary residence as of April 1st. This reduces your taxable valuation by $10,000.
- Open Space–available to those properties that have been preserved forever wild through conservation easement or other means.
- Property Tax Fairness Credit (2016)
- Veteran’s Exemption–available to those veterans, disabled veterans and widowers of veterans from various qualifying US Armed Services in qualifying wars who are residential property owners and have certified as to their primary residence as of April 1st. This can provide a reduction in taxable valuation of 6,000.
- Tax Exemptions for Veterans Application – A veteran who served during a recognized war period and is 62 years or older; or, is receiving 100% disability as a Veteran; or, became 100% disabled while serving, is eligible for $6,000.
- Tree Growth–available to those properties with at least 10 forested acres of land that is protected under tree growth and assessed at “current” use rather than “just” value. This program can substantially reduce the tax burden for owners of large tracts of undeveloped land but also has a substantial penalty for withdrawal.
- Tree Growth Program Enacted in 1972 to help Maine landowners maintain their property as productive woodlands, and to support Maine’s wood products industry.
- Property Tax Stablization
