Vermont Statutes Title 32 Sec. 5292
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 32 Sec. 5292
- Appraisal: A determination of property value.
- Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate. See
- Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See
§ 5292. Filing of taxpayer’s objections
(a) A taxpayer shall not contest the validity of any tax assessed against his or her person, personal property, or real estate, nor the validity of the action of the listers or selectboard in assessing such tax, nor the validity of any grand list, unless the taxpayer filed his or her objections to the validity thereof, in the office of the town clerk wherein the tax is assessed, within a period of two months from November 15 of each year in which the tax is assessed.
(b) If the taxpayer desires to object upon the ground that the notice he or she received, although given in the manner prescribed by law, is based upon invalid or defective proceedings in making up of the appraisal, grand list, or in the assessment thereof, he or she shall file at the place and within the time prescribed by subsection (a) of this section his or her specific objection that the notice received was so based. (Amended 1957, No. 219, § 2, eff. July 1, 1961; 1959, No. 218 § 3.)