Last Chance: Tax Appeals Deadline Is In One Week
The last day to file an application to appeal property tax assessments is Monday, April 2.
The deadline for Ocean City property owners to appeal tax assessments is April 2. The deadline for the appeals each year is April 1, but since that date falls on a Sunday this year, property owners will have until the end of the business day on Monday, April 2, to submit their applications, according to the Cape May County Board of Taxation. Since the market values of many properties have fallen since the city's most recent "hybrid reassessment" in 2008, many owners are potentially paying taxes based on overvalued property assessments. Last year, 622 of the 642 owners who filed appeals were successful. The assessed value of their properties was reduced by a combined $113,061,900, an average of $181,772 apiece. Since then, about 3,000 more …
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