The mill rate is the amount of the tax payable per dollar of the assessed property value. The mill rate percentage is a modifier that is applied to the mill rate. You can add the mill rate, mill rate percentage, or both the mill rate and mill rate percentage to all real property reports. Adding the mill rate and mill rate percentage to a report allows you to verity the real property tax is calculating correctly.
Add the Mill Rate to a Real Property Report to provide visibility into the tax rate used to calculate property taxes. Including the mill rate helps users understand how tax amounts were determined, verify tax calculations, and analyze the impact of tax rates on assessed and taxable values. This information is useful for reporting, auditing, budgeting, and responding to taxpayer inquiries.
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By adding the mill rate to a Real Property Report, you can provide greater transparency into tax calculations, support data verification, and improve the usefulness of the report for analysis and decision-making.
1. Open a real property report.
2. Click the Columns tab.
3. Click Modify Columns for this Report Line.
4. Use the Selection window to add [Report].Mill Rate to the Selected Columns list, and then click OK.
The mill rate column is added to the report.
1. Open a real property report.
2. Click the Columns tab.
3. Click Modify Columns for this Report Line.
4. Use the Selection window to add [Report].Mill Rate Percentage to the Selected Columns list, and then click OK.
The mill rate percentage column is added to the report.