Personal Property Canvas

  • February 15, 2017

City of Auburn

Business Personal Property Canvas

Its personal property season once again! The Assessing Office will be canvasing the City in February. Each year the Assessing Office reaches out to the community in an effort to identify new businesses. We also check for businesses that may have closed.

If you own a new business or if you have never filed, please contact our office to discuss your account. We can help you with the initial filing and answer questions about any exemptions or refunds that you may qualify for.

When you provide us with a complete list of assets, we can properly assess those items. This assures that you pay no more taxes than required. If you do not file we are left to estimate your assets based on what a comparable business may own. Repeated non-filings result in “growth factors”, because we assume that you will purchase new equipment each year.  It is very important that you file.

By filing you also retain your right to an appeal and are assured that we will depreciate those assets.

We plan to hit the streets beginning the third week of February. Help us find you by contacting this office. We can send you filing instructions or sit down with you at your place of business. We look forward to meeting you.

You can contact us in the Assessing Office and/or check out our webpage with information on filing business personal property here: City of Auburn, Personal Property Filing

Phone: (207) 333-6601 or e mail: assessing@auburnmaine.gov