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2025 Division Statistical Analysis Reminder and Deadline
Time trending and performance evaluation analyses assistance is available through the Division for vacant land, residential improved, and commercial improved classes of real property. Counties requesting the Division’s assistance are advised to review this memorandum carefully. Please note that the Division’s assistance program is offered as a supplemental and complementary statistics review to the county’s internal work. This assistance is not intended to take the place of the county’s internal assessment statistics program.
Meeting for PPER Portal Changes
On January 15, 2025 at 10:00am we will be hosting a meeting to go over some new and exciting changes to the PPER portal. Our staff has worked with our IT department to help improve the PPER reporting process and would like to introduce you to the updates. We encourage all assessor and treasurer office staff who process the Personal Property Exemption to attend. Please register for the meeting using the link below.
If you have any questions please reach out to Ruth Dane at ruth.dane@state.co.us or Jennifer Earp at jennifer.earp@state.co.us.
New Registration Requirements for Zoom
Starting in 2025, Zoom.com is now requiring all participants to have a Zoom account that matches the email address provided when registering for our classes. If you are signed up for one of our classes and receive an error message when attempting to register for the Zoom link, please go to Zoom.com and create a free account before attempting to register for the link for a class.
If you run into any issues or have any questions please contact Ruth Dane at ruth.dane@state.co.us
Qualified Senior Primary Residence Classification Application and Instructions Form Updates
The Division received questions regarding the Qualified Senior Primary Residence Classification forms. To qualify for the classification the applicant needed to have received the Senior Citizen Property Tax Exemption on a residential property in the state of Colorado as of January 1 of 2020, or later. We have updated the language on the forms to clarify this and make it easier to understand for staff and applicants. The printable PDF versions of the application and instructions are located on the Division’s website under the Forms Index page.
If you have any questions contact Brian Kruesi at brian.kruesi@state.co.us
San Matteo Data Analytics 2025 Web Portal and Regional Audit Meetings
Some of you met our team at the Winter Conference, or heard through the assessment grapevine, that we are the new auditors, San Matteo Data Analytics (SMDA). We’ve launched the web portal and have received great feedback on improving ease of use, efficiency, and reliability. Over the next year, we’ll continue to roll out features to replace previous questionnaires, allow file uploads, and provide access to preliminary and final audit reports.
If you haven’t already, please add our domain (sanmatteodata.org) to your email server’s trusted list to ensure you receive timely communication and avoid emails going to junk.
We look forward to working with you during what will undoubtedly be an eventful two years of legislative changes. Please save the date for our regional meetings: January 14th (Districts 3/6), January 21st (Districts 4/5), and January 23rd (Districts 1/2). These sessions will focus on the plans for the audit, due dates, and changes in 2025, but if you have a conflict, feel free to attend any meeting. Our Chief Data Analyst, Will Wiggins, will present statistical insights, including time trending analysis, and Scott Houser and Alex Sandridge will assist with web portal questions. Kyler and David will also be helping with field questions about valuation.
If you have any questions about registering for the Regional Meetings via Google Meet or the content of the audit sessions, please feel free to reach out to me at joel@sanmatteodata.org.
Click the link below to access the regional meeting schedules.
Senior and Veteran with a Disability Exemption Reporting Deadline
This is a reminder that the second round of senior and veteran exemption files for the 2024 tax year are due to the DPT by the end of January 10, 2025.
The County Portal Website is now open and ready for senior and veteran exemption filings.
Format guidelines for the data files can be found in the ARL Volume 2, Chapter 3, Specific Assessment Procedures.
If you have any questions please contact either
Mikel Shaffer at mikel.shaffer@state.co.us or (303) 864-7762
Brian Kruesi at brian.kruesi@state.co.us or (303) 864-7794
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