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State Tax Commission Bulletins
State Tax Commission Bulletins
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Assessment Administration
- 1990-09 Wheel Chair Ramps
- 1997-19 Illegal Practices of Following Sales & Assessing Over 50%
- 2014-02 Property Inspection
- 2015-20 Computerized Tax Rolls
- 2017-02 Electronic Filing of Real Property Statements, Personal Property Statements and the Combined Document
- 2017-07 Transfer of Qualified Agricultural Property
- 2018-04 Computerized Database System Assessment Roll
- 2018-14 Electronic Filing of Real Property Statements, Personal Property Statements, Small Business Taxpayer Exemption Claim and Combined Document (Form 5278)
- 2020-06 Alternative Energy Systems
- 2022-20 Mathieu Gast Act
- 2024-03 Overview of Audit Process and Designated Assessor under Public Act 660 of 2018
- 2026-03 Recalculating Taxable Value for Assessment Years Which Follow the Years Changed by an Order of the STC or the MTT
Board of Review
- 1995-15 The July and December Boards of Review and the Affects of Act No. 74 of Public Acts of 1995
- 2022-13 July and December Boards of Review
- 2022-14 Qualified Errors under MCL 211.53b
- 2023-24 Qualified Errors
Classification
- 1995-09 Property Classification
- 2002-09 Tree Farming
- 2010-22 State Tax Commission Statement Regarding Property Classification
DDA & TIFA
- 1989-12 Tax Increment Financing
- 1990-07 DDA and TIFA Reports
- 1997-08 DDA, TIFA, LDFA Capture Restrictions
- 1997-09 DDA, TIFA, LDFA Annual Reports
Equalization
- 1982-19 Standards for Equalization Studies
- 1996-13 Equalization of Assessments
- 1997-07 Certification of County Equalization Directors
- 2006-17 Procedure for Equalization of Property Owned by the State and Controlled by the DNR
- 2011-11 Equalization Process
Exemptions
- 1985-04 Assessment of LP Gas Tanks, Exemption of Fish Harvesting and Wood Harvesting Equipment
- 1990-14 Computer Software
- 1991-01 Exemption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Tanks (LPG Tanks) from 1991 taxes
- 1997-03 Implementation of Public Act 476 of 1996 (HB 5359)
- 1997-04 Qualified Agricultural Property (Replaces Bulletin #10 of 1995)
- 2000-18 Expansion of Charitable Exemption Contained in MCL 211.7o
- 2000-19 Exemption for Parks
- 2001-08 Changes to Definition of Agricultural Use
- 2002-08 Buildings of Leased Land Tenant-Installed Leasehold Improvements
- 2003-01 Leasehold Improvements, Freestanding Signs and Billboards, Poverty Guidelines
- 2003-10 Changes to Certain Exemptions as Required by PA 140 of 2003
- 2004-06 Special Tools Exemption
- 2004-10 Qualified Start-Up Businesses
- 2004-11 Innovations Center
- 2005-04 Cemetery Property Exemptions and Taxable Business Property
- 2007-07 Michigan Business Tax and Personal Property Exemptions
- 2010-12 Charitable Non-Profit Housing PA 109 of 2010
- 2013-22 P.A. 161 Disabled Veterans Exemption
- 2013-24 P.A. 204 Development Property
- 2014-11 Exemption of Partially Completed Construction
- 2016-07 Senior Citizen & Disabled Family Housing Exemption
- 2016-14 Occupied Trailer Coach Exemption
- 2017-08 Transitional Qualified Forest Property Exemption
- 2017-26 MCL 211.7o Charitable Exemption
- 2022-12 Key Points for Assessors in the Administration of the Principal Residence Exemption
- 2022-18 MCL 211.9p Qualified Heavy Equipment Rental Personal Property Exemption
- 2023-23 Local Unit Audit of MCL 211.7u Poverty Exemptions
- 2025-17 MCL 211.7u Poverty Exemption
Headlee & Proposal A
- 1994-06 Tax Bill and Tax Roll
- 1994-14 Changes to Assessment Notice, Assessment Rolls, Tax Rolls and Tax Bills
- 1995-03 Proposal A
- 1999-11 PA 38 of 1999 Which Eliminates the So-Called "Excess of Roll"
- 2002-19 Personal Property Additions and Losses
- 2005-07 Millages Authorized by the Voters After April 30 Not Subject to "Headlee" Millage Rollback
Miscellaneous
- 1982-26 1982 Average Values REA Distribution Systems
- 1983-04 Assessable Status of Interests in Underground Rock Strata Used for Gas Storage
- 1986-04 Mobile Homes and Travel Trailers Assessments; Erosion, Contamination from Toxic Waste
- 1987-07 Nursery Stock Seasonal Protection Units
- 1990-01 Platted Subdivisions
- 2004-12 Land Bank Fast Track Authority
- 2009-01 Statutory Changes Passed Late in the 2008 Session
- 2011-09 Withholding Property from Forfeiture
- 2013-08 DNR PILT
- 2015-02 Hydroponics and Aquaculture Specific Tax
- 2017-20 Transfer of Ownership
- 2017-25 Lands Owned by Indian Tribes
- 2018-02 Omitted or Incorrectly Reported Property
Personal Property
- 1989-15 Personal Property
- 1992-02 Bank-Owned Personal Property
- 1994-16 Qualified Personal Property, L-4142, L-4143
- 1996-11 Valuation of Gas Transmission Pipelines and Related Machinery and Equipment
- 1999-05 Daily Rental Property
- 1999-12 New Personal Property Multipliers
- 2000-01 New Personal Property Multipliers for Locally Assessed Public Utilities
- 2000-03 Additional Guidelines Regarding Valuation of Personal Property
- 2001-04 Heavy Earth Moving Equipment
- 2002-07 Revised Table H for Valuing Gas Distribution Pipelines
- 2007-08 Reporting and Valuation of Self-Constructed Assets
- 2014-06 Oil & Gas Reporting