Connecticut Enacts Law on Correcting Property Tax Errors

The Connecticut Governor signed a law allowing a town to designate itself a city. The law includes: 1) allowing municipalities to extend, by one year, the time during which an assessor may issue certificates of correction to fix certain property tax assessment errors and making a corresponding change to the deadline for taxpayers to claim a refund based on a correction, effective July 1; and 2) allowing a special taxing district in New Milford to apportion its costs equally among district property owners, effective Oct. 1, and applicable to assessment years beginning on or after the effective date. [H.B. 6957, ...