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Legislation Moves Toward Streamlining PPT Filing Process

The legislation requires local assessors to accept applications that are postmarked by the annual February 20 deadline — effectively simplifying the filing process for manufacturers in 2018.

Senate Bills 570-573 would amend the General Property Tax Act to:

  • Allow a late application to be filed directly with the March board of review before it adjourned, if a combined document were not filed on time
  • Specify that an appeal of a denial by the March board of review could be made by filing a petition with the Michigan Tax Tribunal within 35 days of the denial notice
  • Specify that a combined document delivered by the U.S. Postal Service would be timely filed if it were postmarked by the deadline and received by the local assessor at least one week before the March meeting of the board of review began
  • Change the February 20 deadline for submitting a combined document for the exemption of qualified new and qualified previously existing eligible manufacturing personal property if February 20 were a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday

“These bills remove barriers for taxpayers to claim the personal property tax exemption supported by the voters of Michigan in the ballot proposal in 2014,” says Mike Johnston, MMA vice president of government affairs. “By empowering the local boards of reviews to approve late applications, more companies will be able claim their portion of the $576 million PPT tax cut we achieved for them.”

The legislation has moved to the full House where a vote is expected this week.

This article was originally published in the 12/5/17 edition of MMA’s MFG Voice.

Contact Mike Johnston

Mike JohnstonVice President of Government Affairs
Call 517-487-8554
E-mail johnston@mimfg.org