Page 8 - Abacoa Community News - April '22

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Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office

Dear Taxpayer: staffed by qualified professionals. They administer the homestead
Happy Spring! exemption, additional property tax exemptions, mailing address
My office continues to and ownership changes, portability applications, and more.
work on the 2022 tax roll 2021 Customer Service By The Numbers
and make preparations for • Phone calls: 122,090 (up from 67,102 in 2020)
the release of the estimated • Counter visits: 23,736
2022 taxable property • E-files: 19,355 (up 17 percent from 2020)
values to the Palm Beach • Total new homestead exemptions: 29,737
County taxing authorities • Portability applications: 6,529
at the end of May.
These preliminary Short-Term Rental Of A
estimates assist the county,
municipalities, and other taxing authorities in projecting Homesteaded Property
their budgets and tax rates and also provide a benchmark
as to what revenue they can expect to receive from You may rent your homesteaded property for 30 days or less
property taxes in the coming year. per calendar year and maintain a homestead exemption. Rental
After the taxing authorities have determined their for more than 30 days for two consecutive years or for more than
budgets and proposed tax rates based on the preliminary six months constitutes abandonment of a homestead exemption.
estimates, my office will mail the Notice of Proposed Lake Osborne in central Palm Beach County lies between Lake Exempt property rented after Jan. 1 of any year does not affect
Taxes to every property owner in August. The notice will Worth Road to the north and Hypoluxo Road to the south. Seen the homestead exemption for that particular year. If the property
detail the assessed value of your property, your proposed using the Pictometry map tool on pbcgov.org/PAPA is rented on Jan. 1 of the following year or the terms of the lease
tax rates, and an estimate of your tax bill. Stay tuned. are six months or more, the exemption will be denied. Property
Also, as “Snowbird Season” comes to a close, we’ve Palm Beach County Property owners are required to notify the Property Appraiser’s Office
included important information on short-term rentals Appraiser’s Office Service when their property no longer qualifies for exemption. Failure
on a homesteaded property for those property owners to do so could result in a homestead tax lien with substantial
who benefit from the homestead exemption and are Centers penalty and interest.
considering renting all or a portion of their homesteaded Be aware of the law before deciding to rent your property.
property. While a vast array of services and information are available (Florida Statute 196.061 and 196.011 (9) (a)). For more
I hope you find this information beneficial and online 24/7 at pbcgov.org/PAPA, my office maintains five service information, visit pbcgov.org/PAPA or contact Exemption
interesting. centers, conveniently located throughout Palm Beach County and Services at (561) 355-2866.
Respectfully,
Dorothy Jacks, CFA, AAS, “Service is our number one priority”
Palm Beach County Property Appraiser
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