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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54:4-52

  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, property or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything except real property as herein defined which may be the subject of ownership. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • taxing district: when used in a law relating to the assessment or collection of taxes, assessments or water rates or water rents, include every political division of the State, less than a county, whose inhabitants, governing body or officers have the power to levy taxes, assessments or rates. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
54:4-52. The county board of taxation shall, on or before May 20, or on or before May 31 in the case of a county board of taxation participating in the demonstration program established in section 4 of P.L.2013, c.15 (C. 54:1-104), in the case of a county operating under the “Property Tax Assessment Reform Act,” P.L.2009, c.118 (C. 54:1-86 et seq.), and in the case of a municipality located in a county that has adopted, by resolution, the provisions of section 1 of P.L.2018, c.94 (C. 54:1-105), fill out a table of aggregates copied from the duplicates of the several assessors and the certifications of the Director of the Division of Taxation relating to second-class railroad property, and enumerating the following items:

(1) The total number of acres and lots assessed;

(2) The value of the land assessed;

(3) The value of the improvements thereon assessed;

(4) The total value of the land and improvements assessed, including:

a. Second-class railroad property;

b. All other real property.

(5) The value of the personal property assessed, stating in separate columns:

a. Value of household goods and chattels assessed;

b. Value of farm stock and machinery assessed;

c. Value of stocks in trade, materials used in manufacture and other personal property assessed under section 54:4-11;

d. Value of all other tangible personal property used in business assessed.

(6) Deductions allowed, stated in separate columns:

a. Household goods and other exemptions under the provisions of section 54:4-3.16 of this Title;

b. Property exempted under section 54:4-3.12 of this Title.

(7) The net valuation taxable;

(8) Amounts deducted under the provisions of sections 54:4-49 and 54:4-53 of this Title or any other similar law (adjustments resulting from prior appeals);

(9) Amounts added under any of the laws mentioned in subdivision 8 of this section (like adjustments);

(10) Amounts added for equalization under the provisions of sections 54:3-17 to 54:3-19 of this Title;

(11) Amounts deducted for equalization under the provisions of sections 54:3-17 to 54:3-19 of this Title;

(12) Net valuation on which county, State and State school taxes are apportioned;

(13) The number of polls assessed;

(14) The amount of dog taxes assessed;

(15) The property exempt from taxation under the following special classifications:

a. Public school property;

b. Other school property;

c. Public property;

d. Church and charitable property;

e. Cemeteries and graveyards;

f. Other exemptions not included in foregoing classifications subdivided showing exemptions of real property and exemptions of personal property;

g. The total amount of exempt property.

(16) State road tax;

(17) State school tax;

(18) County taxes apportioned, exclusive of bank stock taxes;

(19) Local taxes to be raised, exclusive of bank stock taxes, subdivided as follows:

a. District school tax;

b. Other local taxes.

(20) Total amount of miscellaneous revenues, including surplus revenue appropriated, for the support of the taxing district budget, which, for a municipality operating under the State fiscal year, shall be the amounts for the fiscal year ending June 30 of the year in which the table is prepared;

(21) District court taxes;

(22) Library tax;

(23) Bank stock taxes due taxing district;

(24) Tax rate for local taxing purposes to be known as general tax rate to apply per $100.00 of valuation, which general tax rate shall be rounded up to the nearest one-half penny after receipt in any year of a municipal resolution submitted to the county tax board on or before April 1 of that tax year requesting that the general tax rate be rounded up to the nearest one-half penny.

For municipalities operating under the State fiscal year, the amount for local municipal purposes shall be the amount as certified pursuant to section 16 of P.L.1994, c.72 (C. 40A:4-12.1). The table shall also include a footnote showing the amount raised by taxation for municipal purposes as shown in the State fiscal year budget ending June 30 of the year the table is prepared.

In addition to the above such other matters may be added, or such changes in the foregoing items may be made, as may from time to time be directed by the Director of the Division of Taxation. The forms for filling out tables of aggregates shall be prescribed by the director and sent by him to the county treasurers of the several counties to be by them transmitted to the county board of taxation. Such table of aggregates shall be correctly added by columns and shall be signed by the members of the county board of taxation and shall within three days thereafter be transmitted to the county treasurer who shall file the same and forthwith cause it to be printed in its entirety and shall transmit certified copy of same to the Director of the Division of Taxation, the State Auditor, the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, the clerk of the board of freeholders, and the clerk of each municipality in the county.

amended 1938, c.384; 1941, c.293, s.3; 1941, c.293, repealed 1948, c.40, s.18; 1942, c.316, s.3; 1945, c.163, s.8; 1948, c.41; 1978, c.136, s.20; 1991, c.75, s.34; 1992, c.159, s.24; 1994, c.72, s.17; 1995, c.94, s.4; 1995, c.345; 2013, c.15, s.16; 2017, c.306, s.9; 2018, c.94, s.10.