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Location:
219 Paw Paw St., Suite 302
Paw Paw, MI 49079
From I-94 take the Paw Paw Exit (exit 60). Turn north and proceed ˝ mile. Take right after Sheriffs Building, proceed to Administration & Land Services Building on left.
Phone#: (269) 657-8234
Fax#: (269) 657-0579
EQUALIZATION
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STAFF
Edward VanderVries, Director of Land Services
Michael Klusman, Equalization Director
Kathy Swinehart, Senior Appraiser
Linda Marcinkowski, Appraiser/Technician
Bruce Kruithoff, Contract Agricultural Appraiser
HOURS
Monday-Friday: 8:30am-5:00pm
Closed for Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm
Saturday and Sunday: closed
Holiday Schedule
The Van Buren County Courthouse will be closed for these dates:
New Year’s Eve – Thursday, December 31
New Year’s Day – Friday, January 1
2010 HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Martin Luther King Day – Monday, January 18
President’s Day – Monday, February 15
Memorial Day – Monday, May 31
Independence Day – Monday, July 5
Labor Day, Monday, September 6
Veteran’s Day – Thursday, November 11
Thanksgiving Day – Thursday, November 25
Day after Thanksgiving – Friday, November 26
Christmas Eve – Thursday, December 23
Christmas Day – Friday, December24
New Year’s Eve – Thursday, December 30
New Year’s Day – Friday, December 31
MANDATE BY LAW
Section 211.34 of the General Property Tax Act of the State of Michigan mandates the process of state equalization. The act states in part that the county board of commissioners shall examine the assessment rolls of the townships or cities each year and ascertain whether the real and personal property in the respective townships or cities has been equally and uniformly assessed at an average level of 50% of true cash value.
The General Property Tax Act goes on to state that the county board of commissioners of a county shall establish and maintain a department to survey assessments and assist the board of commissioners in the matter of equalization of assessments. The county board of commissioners, through the department, may furnish assistance to local assessing officers in the performance of duties imposed upon those officers by this act, including development and maintenance of accurate property descriptions, the discovery, listing, and valuation of properties for tax purposes, and the development and use of uniform valuation standards and techniques for the assessment of property.
The department is also responsible for calculating all millage rollback fractions required by law (Headlee, Truth in Assessing, Truth in County Equalization, and Truth in Taxation) for all Taxing Authorities within the County such as K-12 schools, intermediate schools, colleges, the county, townships, villages, cities, and district libraries. Following this process, the department compiles all millage to be levied within the county and submits the apportionment report to the County Board for their examination and approval and a copy to the State Tax Commission.
AVAILABLE REPORTS & FORMS
The following reports and forms are provided by the Equalization Department of Van Buren County. In order to view these Adobe Acrobat files, you need to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. If you do not have that program, you can use this link to connect with Adobe’s web site below and download a free version of Adobe Acrobat reader.
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