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Assessing personal property

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Every year (in January) the City of Saco's assessing department will mail (to all business taxpayers) a declaration request letter along with a declaration form. Businesses are requested to provide the assessor with a true and perfect inventory list of all personal property (which was in the possession of the business as of April 1st of each year). For your convenience, the personal property declaration letter and form are available to download in pdf form from our webpage. Personal Property categories include but are not limited to:

• Furniture & Fixtures: Office furnishings such as desks, chairs, bookcases, filing cabinets, tables, sofas etc. This category also includes fixtures specific to the business that may be attached to the real estate but is generally removed when the business relocates.
  
  
• Machinery & Equipment: Presses, tools, machining equipment, garage equipment, heavy-duty shelving and other machinery or manufacturing equipment, telephone equipment, typewriters, calculators, fax machines, copiers and other office items of this type.
  
  
• Computer Equipment: CPUs, monitors, servers, network wiring, printers, software and other computer type equipment used by a business.
  
  
• Signs: A business advertisement sign that require a city permit to display.
  
  
• Park Models: Park model campers that are housed year round in the City of Saco, which if needed to be moved, would have to be done so by a professional moving company.

The State of Maine provides two separate programs to business taxpayer's reference to personal property. Those programs are:

• BETE (Exemption) Program: Business Equipment Tax Exemption Program
• BETR (Reimbursement) Program: Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement Program

For more information regarding these programs, you may download the BETE & BETR program info, or you can visit the State of Maine website at www.maine.gov/revenue.

For your convenience, we have provided links to related documents below:

• Personal Property Declaration Letter PDF file, 84K
• Personal Property Depreciation Schedules PDF file, 36K
• Personal Property Declaration Form PDF file, 79K
• Business Equipment Tax Exemption Program PDF file, 38K
• Personal Property Tax on Park Model Campers PDF file, 44K