Exemptions and Credits (Application Forms)

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Form Name	Tax Year
Rent Reimbursement Claim forms and instructions (pdf) 54-130 Rent Reimbursement Assistance Sites	Blank Form: 2012 (instructions included) Fillable and Calculates: 2012	Blank Form: 2011 Fillable and Calculates: 2011 Instructions
Property Tax Credit Claim form only (pdf) 54-001	Blank Form: 2012 Fillable and Calculates: 2012	Blank Form: 2011 Fillable and Calculates: 2011
Property Tax Credit Claim instructions only (pdf) 54-002	2012	2011
Mobile Home Owner Application for Reduced Tax Rate (pdf) 54-014	Blank Form: 2012 Fillable and Calculates: 2012	Blank Form: 2011 Fillable and Calculates: 2011
Special Assessment Credit Claim (pdf) 54-036	Blank Form: 2012 Fillable and Calculates: 2012	Blank Form: 2011 Fillable and Calculates: 2011

Barn and One-Room School House Exemption (pdf) 54-018

Credit Union Statement to Assessor (pdf) 57-150

Data Center Business Application for Property Tax Exemption (pdf) 54-009

Disabled Veteran's Homestead Credit (pdf) 54-049

Family Farm Tax Credit (pdf) 54-023

Forest or Fruit Tree Reservation Exemption (pdf) 56-067

Geothermal Heating & Cooling System Property Tax Exemption (pdf) 54-011

Grain Tax Return and Instructions (pdf) 56-068

Historic Property Rehabilitation Exemption (pdf) 54-019

Iowa Administrative Code chapter 210: smoke detectors (pdf)

Homestead Tax Credit - Notice of Transfer or Change in Use of Property (pdf) 59-458

Impoundment Structure Exemption (pdf) 54-067

Industrial Exemption (pdf) 57-122

Local Option Remedial Action Credit (pdf) 54-017

Methane Gas Conversion Exemption (pdf) 54-065

Military Service Tax Exemption Application (pdf) 54-146

Military Service Tax Exemption - Notice of Transfer or Change in Use of Property (pdf) 59-458

Mobile Home Park Storm Shelter Exemption (pdf) 54-999

Native Prairie or Wetlands Exemption (pdf) 54-006

Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations (pdf) 54-269

Notice of Assessment of Omitted Property by Auditor, Assessor or Treasurer (pdf)

Pollution Control and Recycling Exemption and Certification of Pollution Control and Recycling Property (pdf) 54-064

Recreational Lake, Open Prairies, etc., Exemption (pdf) 54-010

Section 42 Reporting Form (electronic) (Excel) 57-014
2013 Section 42 Housing capitalization rate is 10.46%.

Section 42 Reporting Form (paper) (Excel) 57-015

Speculative Shell Buildings Property Tax Exemption (pdf) 54-008

Web Search Portal Exemption (pdf) 54-007