Assessing

The City has contracted Berg Assessing and Consulting to manage tax assessment.  There will not be an Assessor physically located at City Hall during regular office hours. Matters that require the Assessor's attention will be directed to Berg Assessing & Consulting.

Berg Assessing and Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 25
Rogers City, MI 49779
[email protected]
989.734.3555

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All documents for the Assessor, such as Principal Residence Exemption Affidavits, or Property Transfer Affidavits, should be mailed directly to the Assessor at:
City of Petoskey
Assessing Department
PO Box 25
Rogers City, MI 49779

Email general assessing questions to: [email protected]
Email property record card requests to: [email protected]
Email address changes to: [email protected]

Department Duties
Appointed by the City Council, the Assessor is responsible for the listing and inventory of the individual properties in the City. The Assessor shall estimate, according to his best information and judgment, the true cash value and assessed value of every parcel of taxable property. The assessments are placed in the assessment roll and completed by the first Monday in March for the property to be taxed.

The Assessor does not create value. Value is created by the economic forces in the market of buyers and sellers. The Assessor studies transactions of the market and appraises all property in accordance with State law and State Tax Commission guidelines. The Assessing Department also keeps track of ownership changes, maintains maps of parcel boundaries, maintains legal descriptions for all land, and prepares sketches of all buildings and summarizes their characteristics. Other responsibilities of the Assessor include administrating the Principal Residence Exemption Program.

Annually, approximately fourteen days before the first meeting of the local Board of Review, the Assessor shall give each owner listed in the assessment roll a notice by first class mail of the increase in assessed or taxable value for the year. This notice will specify the time and place of the meeting of the local Board of Review.

Dates to Remember

• December 31: Tax day for the following year's taxes.
• End of February: Assessment notices mailed. (Last week of February)
• June 1: Last day to file Principle Residence Exemption for current tax year.
• July 31st: Residential deadline to file an appeal with the Michigan Tax Tribunal. Some different types of appeals have different deadlines. To be sure of deadline date contact your assessor. Commercial/Industrial deadline is May 31st.
• For the date/time of the March board of review, please contact the Assessor. The deadline to request an appeal for the March Board of Review is the Friday before the 2nd Monday in March.
• For the date/time of the July board of review, please contact the Assessor. The deadline to request an appeal for the July Board of Review is the Friday before the 3rd Monday in July.
• For the date/time of the December board of review, please contact the Assessor. The deadline to request an appeal for the December Board of Review is the Friday before the 2nd Monday in December. 

Proposal A
Enacted in 1994, Proposal A saw changes how local government calculates property taxes. One of the changes was the inception of taxable value. Taxable value is the value on which your millage rate is calculated for the tax bill. If there are not any physical additions (buildings etc.) or a transfer of ownership on the property, this value increases annually at the Consumer Price Index given by the State of Michigan. The Consumer Price Index cannot exceed 5% in any given year.

This proposal had no change on the law on calculating assessed value. The assessed value remains at 50% of "cash value" basically means the usual selling price, a price a willing buyer and willing seller agrees on.

If a property owner disagrees with the Assessor, they may appeal the assessed value, the taxable value or property classification to the local Board of Review in March. The Board of Review will render its decision and the owner may appeal that decision to the Michigan Tax Tribunal.

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