Friday, December 1, 2017

Designated Forestland Property Improvement

Chapter 150 Division 307 PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION 150-307-0010 Real Property https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/displayDivisionRules.action?selectedDivision=421

(ii) Onsite developments (OSD) are land improvements within the site which support the buildings or other property uses. These include but are not limited to items such as grading, fill, drainage, wells, water supply systems, septic systems, utility connections, extension of utilities to any structure(s), retaining walls, landscaping, graveled driveway area. Onsite development is synonymous with onsite improvement.

(B) For all specially assessed farm and forest land appraisals the value of onsite developments included as part of the land value will be listed as a separate item on the land record. An exception to this procedure is the appraisal of taxable improvements on exempt federal land. In this situation, the onsite development value shall be carried as a separate item on the improvement record.

It is evident that Designated Forestland has a purpose to harvest timber of commercial value for market sale.  Designated Forestland is a: "land improvement(s) within the site which support the buildings or other property uses".

(a) Land. “Land” may be either the raw undeveloped land, or improved to the extent a site is created. A “site” exists when land has been improved by site developments to the point that it is, or is ready to be, used for the purpose intended.
(A) Site developments are improvements to the land that become so intertwined with the land as to become inseparable. Examples are: fill, grading and leveling, utility facilities (sewer, water, etc.), cost of developer’s activities and profit that accrues to the land, including but not limited to: permits, advertising, sales commissions, developer’s profit and overhead, insurance coverage, and any other improvements to the land necessary to improve it to become a site. Site developments are synonymous with site improvements, land improvements, and site preparation. Site developments consist of both “offsite developments” and “onsite developments.”

Site Classes: https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/viewSingleRule.action?ruleVrsnRsn=21397

Conclusion: The purpose of planting and growing trees of a certain species is a land use purpose.  One that is subject to appraisal of taxable improvements.  

 


Oregon Department of Revenue Public Records

Department of Revenue Chapter 150 Division 192 Public Records
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/displayDivisionRules.action?selectedDivision=388

Department Records Exempt From Disclosure
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/viewSingleRule.action?ruleVrsnRsn=17272

New Property and New Improvements to Property ORS 308.153

https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/308.153

If an improvement to property, like a new structure,  appears on the overview map of the property but is not listed as a structure on the property nor has any permits related to its construction....

    then;

The property does not exist on the County Assessor Tax Roll.

If a structure is not on the County Assessor Tax Roll

   then:

It is not subject to taxation.

Rule:  All Structures and Improvements subject to taxation must appear on the County Assessor Tax Roll

Property Subject to Taxation
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/displayDivisionRules.action?selectedDivision=421
(ii) Onsite developments (OSD) are land improvements within the site which support the buildings or other property uses. These include but are not limited to items such as grading, fill, drainage, wells, water supply systems, septic systems, utility connections, extension of utilities to any structure(s), retaining walls, landscaping, graveled driveway area. Onsite development is synonymous with onsite improvement.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Deschutes County Ratio Study

https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/308.050
To aid the county court or board of county commissioners and the Department of Revenue in ascertaining whether a county assessor is maintaining a county’s appraisal program, the county assessor must present, with the annual ratio study required by ORS 309.200 (Assessor to collect sales data and prepare ratio study), a written report as to the current status of the overall program of property appraisals in the county, specifying what property was reappraised in the past year and what is to be reappraised in the current year. [1967 c.316 §2 (2); 1981 c.804 §30; 1989 c.796 §16; 1991 c.459 §86]

ORS 309.200 (Assessor to collect sales data and prepare ratio study)
1) Between January 1 and December 31 of each year the county assessor shall collect sales data for a ratio study.
(2) The assessor shall prepare and complete a certified ratio study in the time and manner provided by the rules adopted by the Department of Revenue. A copy of the sales data collected and used as the basis for conclusions relating to real market value shall be included with the ratio study. The assessor shall file a certified copy of the sales data and ratio study with the department, as prescribed by department rule.
(3) Not later than October 15 of each year the assessor shall file with the clerk of the board of property tax appeals a copy of the ratio study. [1975 c.753 §2; 1981 c.804 §23; 1985 c.613 §24; 1989 c.330 §18; 1991 c.459 §202; 1993 c.270 §43; 1997 c.541 §239; 1999 c.655 §7]



This is the Ratio Study Report for Columbia County.  An OTCATS participant:
http://www.co.columbia.or.us/departments/assessors-office-main/certified-tax-roll-data

Jackson county ratio study: http://jacksoncountyor.org/assessor/Taxes/Tax-Time/Ratio-CPR
ORS 308.232 states: All real or personal property within each county not exempt from ad valorem property taxation or subject to special assessment shall be valued at 100 percent of its real market value.

Sales Data Ratio Study: SURVEY OF RATIO STUDY METHODS USED BY THE STATES
(September 1995)

https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/309.200

Crook County http://co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/June%202016;%20Volume%202%20Issue%206.pdf

Conducted by New York
https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/property/reports/ratio/section1.htm

Assessor Assoc standards:
http://www.iaao.org/Search?SearchTerms=ratio%20study
"As stated earlier, ratio studies are primarily conducted to determine the extent to which local governments are upholding statutory requirements governing the level and uniformity of assessments and to make appropriate adjustments where they are not. The most important step in the verification process is the calculation of a measure of central tendency from the individual parcel ratios (of assessed value to either sale price or appraised value) that are available. Several alternative statistics can be used to measure central tendency. They would have identical values for a perfect normal distribution of parcel ratios, but they normally diverge in practice since the distribution seldom meets this strict criterion."

http://oregoncounties.org/property-tax-change-ratio-city/


http://oregoncounties.org/property-tax-change-ratio-city/  (more at the link)
House Bill (HB) 2088, as introduced, would grant authority to a city by ordinance or resolution to require calculation by the county assessor of the Changed Property Ratio (CPR) within that city rather than county-wide.
Under Oregon’s complex property tax system, a large portion of which was embedded in the Oregon Constitution by Ballot Measure 50 (1997), new real property is put on the tax roll at a maximum assessed value (MAV) determined by a calculation. First, the property must be identified by category, examples of which include residential, industrial, commercial, machinery & equipment, apartment, or manufactured home. Each category has a Changed Property Ratio (CPR) in each county determined by dividing the average MAV by the average real market value of unchanged property of that category in the county. New property of that category is given a MAV that results from multiplying the CPR (typically a fraction of the number 1) times the real market value (RMV) of the new property
HB 2088 would authorize a city to require the county assessor to calculate the CPR for properties within the city based only on properties within that city.
AOC and the Assessors Association opposed the application of the concept statewide, because it would add complexity and uncertainty of administration; require additional time and expense to monitor, track, maintain and explain multiple CPRs in the county; and county computer software would need to be programmed to handle the change.
The City of Gresham sponsored the bill and the League of Oregon Cities endorsed it. Gresham determined that the CPR for the city is a larger fraction than for Multnomah County, and Gresham is expecting a surge in residential development. After negotiations among the city, county, AOC and assessors, Multnomah County agreed to amendments that confine the concept to its cities. On May 11th, the House Revenue Committee adopted amendments that confine the concept to Multnomah County, and sent HB 2088A to the House floor with a “do pass” recommendation. The amendments include specific provisions insisted upon by the assessors: county cost recovery up to $60,000; a commitment by the city of the city CPR for at least five years; and a beginning date of January 1, 2019, unless the Multnomah County Assessor consents to January 1, 2018.
Contributed by: Gil Riddell | AOC Policy Director

Exception Value Ratio: Deschutes County New Property Improvements

2017-18 EXCEPTION VALUE RATIO
Property Class Property Type Ratio
  1. 0  Unbuildable 59.5
  2. 1  Residential 59.5
  3. 2  Commercial 65.9
  4. 3  Industrial 65.9
303 State Industrial 100.0 308 
Industrial Mach/Equip 100.0
  1. 4  Tract 56.9
  2. 5  Farm 56.9
  3. 6  Forest 56.9
  4. 7  Multi-Family 66.2
71 Low Income Housing 66.2 

8 Resort 84.4
The above ratios are applied to the real market value of new property or improvements to property per ORS. 308.153. These ratios are calculated and applied each year based on the primary property class for each property. The ratio is only applied to that portion of value that is new.
This adjusted new value is then added to the Maximum Assessed value of any existing property.

ORS. 308.153 was part of Ballot Measure 50 that was implemented in 1997. The statute states in part... "If new property is added to the assessment roll or improvements are made to property as of January 1 of the assessment year....the value of the new property or new improvements determined under this section shall be multiplied by the ratio."
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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Wildlife Conservation

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/03/some_property_owners_abusing_w.html

http://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/151521
WILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVATION POT'L ADDITIONAL TAX LIABILITY 
145 acres $259 tax
http://dial.deschutes.org/Real/TaxInformation/151521

http://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/177778
WILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVATION POT'L ADDITIONAL TAX LIABILITY 
RMV
Land: $580,555
Structure: $479,080
Assessed: $383,719
2017 tax:  $5,771

http://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/156779
WILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVATION POT'L ADDITIONAL TAX LIABILITY
Land: $81,340
2017 tax: .20


http://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/156777
WILDLIFE HABITAT CONSERVATION POT'L ADDITIONAL TAX LIABILITY 
Land: $80,330
2017 tax: $2.43

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Assessor Helion contract ORCAT

https://www.deschutes.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/board_of_county_commissioners/page/1738/doc_300_-_assess_tax_svcs_agrmt_-_helion.pdf

http://helionsoft.com/

http://helionsoft.com/products/orcats/

http://www.helioncentral.com/orcats/

Helion is a Simplifile partner:
https://simplifile.com/about-simplifile/simplifile-partners/helion-software/

https://simplifile.com/

http://helionsoft.com/about/partners/
    https://simplifile.com/about-simplifile/simplifile-partners/
    http://www.extractsystems.com/   
    http://www.erecording.com/
    https://www.goepn.com/
 

http://www.msgovern.com/software/detail/govern_cama/

Oregon counties participating in ORCATS:  http://www.helioncentral.com/orcats/Ownership.aspx

Deschutes County ORCAT audit 2007:  https://weblink.deschutes.org/Public/DocView.aspx?id=12404&searchid=406e89c6-8b63-453b-a83f-2c6b9cf86441&dbid=0


CAMA Software Vendors Report Washington State
http://propertytax.dor.wa.gov/Documents/ToolsAndResources/CAMA_Findings.pdf

Oregon Department of Revenue Property Appraisal Program Training
http://library.state.or.us/repository/2012/201207271113195/index.pdf

http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/programs/property/Pages/appraiser-trainee.aspx

http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/forms/FormsPubs/appraisal-methods_303-415.pdf Rev 5-2017
Ratio Analysis:
Ratio analysis: A ratio study compares the RMV of property on the tax roll to current sales prices The conclusions arrived at through the ratio study are used to adjust roll values to market value as of the assessment date Ratio studies are also used to identify areas that may need reappraisal The assessor is required to complete a ratio study each year For an in-depth discussion on ratio analysis, see Chapter 7 

Ratio study. The assessor’s certified ratio study required by ORS 309 200 and filed with the clerk of
the Board of Property Tax Appeals by October 15 each year The contents must comply with OAR 150- 309-0240 and the current Assessor’s Ratio Procedures Manual This study estimates the percentage relationship between the total prior year’s RMV of taxable property on the prior assessment roll and the total current RMV of the same properties in each property class countywide, by month and quarter, and by sale date

The Oregon Constitution limits the rate of growth of property value subject to taxation. The limit is based on a property's maximum assessed value (MAV). MAV can't increase by more than 3-percent each year, unless there are changes to the property, such as the addition of a new structure, improvement of an existing structure, or subdivision or partition of the property. 

ArcGIS Land administration: 
http://www.esri.com/industries/land-administration  
   http://www.esri.com/industries/land-administration/cama-integration
   http://www.esri.com/esri-news/arcuser/winter-2013/improving-records-reducing-costs  


Sue Martin, County Assessor, gave a brief history of ORCATS/Helion software conversion from the antiquated system in 2006, conversion from consortium based ownership to Helion ownership of software. She reviewed the increase in cost associated with cost of living and potential to host web query on the county website in the future rather than contract with Helion to host the web query and web maps. Sue explained that the 2015 contract is being amended to include the updated costs. County Counsel has already reviewed this amendment and it is now ready for Board action. With that, Commissioner Magruder moved and Commissioner Tardif seconded to approve Amendment #2 to the contract with Helion Services. The motion carried unanimously.

Operating Systems, Application Programs and Feedback Loops

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