Roughly 40 Vermont communities have completed townwide reassessments as the State implements Act 68’s new reappraisal system. The early results raise serious concerns, but VT4VT still lacks enough taxpayer reports and municipal records to document what happened across every affected community.
We need the records.
VT4VT has received more than 91 anonymous reassessment surveys. They provide important evidence about what individual property owners are experiencing, but 91 responses represent only a fraction of the towns and properties affected.
To build a credible statewide analysis that can be presented to Vermont legislators and Governor Phil Scott, we need two forms of evidence: reassessment surveys from property owners and complete municipal grand lists.
If you received a reassessment notice or a new property-tax bill, complete the anonymous Vermont Reassessment Survey. Do not assume someone else from your town has already responded. We need enough responses from each community to identify patterns while protecting the anonymity of individual taxpayers.
We also need Vermont’s complete parcel-level grand lists for 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027 as each year becomes available. Contact your town clerk, listers or assessor and request the complete grand list—not merely the one-page grand-list abstract.
Upload the files through the Vermont Grand List Survey or email them to grandlist@vt4vt.org.
Municipal grand lists are public records, but many are not available on town websites. Finding, requesting and downloading the available records for one community can take from 15 minutes to two hours. VT4VT cannot collect multiple years of records from every Vermont municipality without public help.
The surveys tell us what property owners experienced. The grand lists allow us to verify those reports, measure assessment changes, compare property categories and examine how the burden changed among homeowners, rental properties, farms, businesses, utilities and communications companies.
We need both.
Older grand lists can disappear when municipalities replace them with current files. Once that happens, reconstructing the record requires additional public-record requests and becomes considerably more difficult.
Complete the survey. Contact your town officials. Request the complete grand lists. Upload the records.
Help VT4VT build a documented statewide record that can be taken directly to Vermont legislators and the Governor.
Worth Protecting.
Damn Right.