PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
March 18, 2024
Black Hawk County Property Tax
Informational Statements Hitting the Mail
Black Hawk County property owners will begin receiving mailings this week from the County Auditor’s Office with information about budget hearings and property taxes. A recent law change requires county auditors to mail a statement to county taxpayers by March 20 with state-specified information related to proposed local government budgets and proposed property tax rates. (See Iowa Code Section 24.2A.)
The information is for taxes payable in September 2024 and March 2025. Property owners should receive a statement if they expect to receive a property tax bill in September. The statement is not a property tax bill. It includes data for proposed city, school district and county budgets but does not include proposed budgets for smaller taxing authorities, such as the community college, assessor’s office, townships, and agricultural extension service.
The purpose of the statement is to provide taxpayers with information about the proposed city, school district, and county budgets in time for the taxpayers to address the proposals at public hearings held before the budgets are approved.
The date, time and location of the hearings are included in the statements. The budgets may be lowered after the hearings but not raised. Included in the statement is the impact of the proposed city, school, and county property tax rates on both a $100,000 residential property and $100,000 commercial property.
The actual tax impact on a property could be quite different than the examples in the statement, which do not factor any possible change in the assessed value. Many Black Hawk County property owners saw growth in assessed value in 2023, which is not reflected in the calculation. Taxpayers owning more than one property may receive multiple letters if those properties are in different tax districts.
The Iowa Department of Management is providing information about how to interpret the property tax mailing through its website at https://dom.iowa.gov/property-taxes. For further information, contact the County Auditor’s Office at (319) 833-3058.
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