What happens after an appeal has been filed?
The Board will register your appeal, checking to ensure that all of the required information has been provided and the appropriate fee has been paid. If everything is in order, the Board will send you an acknowledgement, usually by the end of May or early June. If necessary information is missing, or the appeal fee has not been paid, a notice of the deficiency will be sent to you and you will be required to correct it within a specified deadline. If there is a question about the validity of your appeal (e.g. the appeal was not filed with the Board by April 30th or no complaint was made to the Property Assessment Review Panel) the Registrar will send you a written opinion on the appeals validity. If the Registrars opinion is that the appeal is not valid, you may request that the Board review the opinion (see Board Rule 10 and Information Sheet #3 – Invalid Appeals.) Your appeal will be assigned to one of the Boards appeal managers who will decide the next steps (see details under the Ap