Howard County Property Tax Rebate

Finally! We got our property tax rebate check in the mail yesterday!! And, I might add, not a minute too soon – we owed the state for income taxes, so the rebate check came in the nick of time!

The way I understand the process, the treasurer’s office went back in time to March 1, 2006. (Remember, this rebate is for taxes we paid last year for property taxes in 2006.) Anyway, they went back to March 1, 2006 to determine the owner at that time and if the owner on that date had a homestead exemption on file, they get the rebate.

One exception to this is if the owner has delinquent taxes, the rebate is applied to what is owed.

If this is all a little confusing to you, you are not alone! It becomes even more confusing if you bought or sold a house after March 1, 2006. You may get a rebate for a house you sold two years ago, but not the house you live in right now!

If you haven’t gotten a rebate check yet, I hope you get one soon! I don’t know how they are mailing them out, whether they are going out all together, alphabetically or they have some other system – but hopefully your check is in the mail!