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Terms Used In Iowa Code 425.10

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Director: means the director of the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 453A.42
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Homestead: means the dwelling owned or rented and actually used as a home by the claimant during the period specified in subsection 2, and so much of the land surrounding it including one or more contiguous lots or tracts of land, as is reasonably necessary for use of the dwelling as a home, and may consist of a part of a multidwelling or multipurpose building and a part of the land upon which it is built. See Iowa Code 425.17
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 In the event any claim is allowed, and subsequently reversed on appeal, any exemption and credit made under the claim shall be void. The amount of the erroneous credit shall be charged against the property in question, and the director of revenue, the county auditor, and the county treasurer are authorized and directed to correct their books and records accordingly. The amount of the erroneous credit, when collected, shall be returned by the county treasurer to the homestead credit fund to be reallocated the following year as provided in this subchapter. Taxes due following reversal of a claim for an exemption shall be collected by the county treasurer and allocated to the appropriate taxing entities.