The Tax Assessor’s Office performs various duties, including:
- Identifying, documenting, and assessing taxable and exempt real estate and tangible property.
- Compiling an annual tax roll that provides an accurate account of all assessable properties.
- Managing activities related to the three-year property revaluation cycles, conducting full revaluations every nine years and statistical revaluations in the third and sixth years.
- Administering state and local exemption and abatement programs.
- Maintaining records of property ownership for both real estate and personal property.
- Preparing for appeal hearings and acting as a liaison for the Assessment Board of Review.
- Processing new surveys for parcels and determining assessment values.
- Inspecting all building permits.
- Collaborating with the Town’s GIS Division to update and maintain the Tax Assessor’s plat maps in hard copy and digital formats.
- Providing information and reports to the State of Rhode Island Department of Revenue for certification, inquiries regarding new legislation's fiscal impact, and general inquiries.
- Distributing information to the public regarding public records maintained in the Tax Assessor’s Office.