Owners

  PRESQUE ISLE, Maine – State Reps. Jeremy Fischer, D-Presque Isle, and Patricia Sutherland, D-Chapman, are urging constituents who have not yet filed a “Circuit Breaker” property tax and rent refund application for property taxes or rent paid in 2005 to do so before the May 31 deadline.
    Benefits are available to homeowners and renters who meet the income requirements that were broadly expanded by the Legislature in 2005.
Families earning up to $100,000 are eligible, as well as individuals earning up to $75,000. In order to qualify for a refund, 2005 property taxes must be more than 4 percent of household income, or the yearly rent paid must be more than 20 percent of household income.
More than 200,000 people are eligible for the Circuit Breaker rebate, but many Maine homeowners and renters don’t apply and forfeit their rebates.
Reps. Fischer and Sutherland want to make sure that all of the taxpayers and renters in their districts take advantage of the program.
Applicants could be eligible for up to $2,000 in rebates from the state on their local property taxes.
For an application, contact Rep. Fischer at 551-3097 or Rep. Sutherland at 764-1490.