PTPA Survey Results – panel discussion – Alan Dornfest is heading the panel
IAAO recently updated a comprehensive survey (PTPA) of state, provincial, and international property tax policies and administration. The presentation highlights major features and emerging trends from exemptions to reappraisal and inspection cycles to the degree of oversight provided by the state or central administrative agency. By understanding these patterns, property tax administrators will be better able to gauge how their programs fit with national trends and to understand states and agencies to which their roles may be most comparable.
In 2023 IAAO and the PTPA task force developed a comprehensive survey designed to identify current and emerging property tax policies and administrative procedures. The survey was sent to and completed by U.S. state and Canadian provincial property tax administrators and, for the first time was expanded to include states and nations outside North America. The survey expanded on a 2017 version and explored diverse topics including: education and training programs, valuation processes and limitations, appeals, confidentiality, exemptions, tax relief mechanisms, payments in lieu of property tax, economic incentives involving property tax, and statutory restrictions on levies. Results of the survey were compiled in both spreadsheet and interactive dashboard formats and were published in the Fall, 2025 issue of the Journal of Property Tax Assessment & Administration.
The webinar will give participants the opportunity to see trends and developments in all of these property tax areas and will expose them to the dashboard, including live demonstration of types of research that are enabled by the dashboard. In addition, a panel of task force participants will present their perspective on the topics and policy and administrative changes that they are identifying or gleaning from the survey.
Soft Skills for Oversight Agencies – Christina Gragg
Have you ever sat down with a county, knowing it would be a difficult conversation, but tensions ran high and communication broke down? Did you need participation but only got pushback? We can escalate conflict without meaning to, but we can learn to De-escalate and have productive conversations using the skills learned in this webinar. Here, we can learn how to engage in a way that invites cooperation and builds trust needed in order to attack the problem, not the person.
The cost for this event is $99 for non-members, and $55 for members.
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