What is an assessment notice and when can you expect to receive one?
A real property assessment notice is a statement of value assessed to a particular parcel. When you receive a Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assessment Notice you will note that the notice states the current year valuation of land and improvements. Real property assessment notices are typically mailed in mid to late January of each year.

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1. What exemption programs are available?
2. What is personal property?
3. What is real property?
4. What is an appraisal?
5. What is an assessment?
6. What gives the appraiser the right to photograph or enter my property uninvited?
7. Are all individual real property assessments accessible?
8. Why do assessed values change from year to year?
9. What is an assessment notice and when can you expect to receive one?
10. What if you receive your assessment notice and think your assessed value should be different?
11. What if you didn’t receive an assessment notice?
12. What if you and the assessor cannot agree on the valuation?
13. What is the Board of Equalization?
14. What is your responsibility when appealing to the Board of Equalization?
15. What if you do not agree with the board findings?
16. How is the value of the tax base found?
17. How is the property tax determined?
18. What is a mill?
19. What is a mill rate?
20. Who decides what the mill rate will be?
21. How is the mill rate decided?
22. When can you expect to receive a property tax bill?
23. What if you refuse to pay the tax levied?
24. When are taxes due?
25. What is a lien?
26. How long is the redemption period?
27. What if the taxpayer hasn’t redeemed the property by the end of the redemption period?
28. How do I add or remove and owner from a parcel?
29. I was recently married, how do I change my name?
30. I was recently divorced, how do I change my name?
31. My parent died, how does it change ownership?