Homestead tax property notice

*IMPORTANT PROPERTY TAX HOMESTEAD NOTICE*

*This will affect the amount of property tax you pay in 2026, and

it may affect your eligibility for a property tax refund.

Please contact your county assessor to file a homestead application on or before December 31, 2025, if one of the following applies:

• You purchased a property in the past year and you, or a qualifying relative, occupy the property for homestead purposes on December 31, 2025; or
• You, or a qualifying relative occupy a property for homestead purposes on December 31, 2025, and the property was previously classified as non-homestead.

“Relative” for the purposes of a residential or occupied agricultural homestead means a parent, stepparent, child,

stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece. This relationship may be by

blood or marriage.

“Relative” for the purposes of a special agricultural (unoccupied) homestead is a grandchild, child, sibling, or

parent of the owner of the agricultural property or of the spouse of the owner of the property. This relationship

may be by blood or marriage.

Once you have been granted the homestead classification, no further applications are necessary unless they are specifically requested by the county assessor.  Special agricultural homestead is a yearly application.

You must also contact the assessor by December 31, 2025 if you are the property owner, or a qualifying relative of the property owner, and the use of the property has changed during the past year.

If you should sell, move, or for any reason no longer qualify for the homestead classification, you are required to notify the county assessor within 30 days of the change in homestead status.  Failure to notify the county assessor within this 30 day period is punishable by recalculation of tax as non-homestead, in addition to penalty equal to 100 percent of the homestead benefits.