§ 15736 School Tax Refund Adjustments
This law says that if a school district gets a tax refund because some property was later found to be tax‑exempt and that exempt property is at least 1% of the district’s total assessed value, the state will lower the district’s next‑year repayment to the State School Fund by the amount the repayment would have been lower if the exempt property had never been counted.
A school district collected $500,000 in taxes last year. This year a court decides that a piece of land worth $200,000 was actually exempt, and that land makes up 2% of the district’s total assessed value.
Because the exempt land is more than 1% of the total, the state will cut the district’s repayment for the next fiscal year by the amount it would have saved if the $200,000 had never been included in the tax base.
Reduction = Annual Repayment × (Exempt Valuation ÷ Total Assessed Valuation)
Total assessed valuation = $10,000,000; Exempt property valuation = $200,000; Original annual repayment = $500,000.
Result: Reduction = 500,000 × (200,000 ÷ 10,000,000) = 500,000 × 0.02 = $10,000. New repayment = $500,000 – $10,000 = $490,000.
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§ 15736 School Tax Refund Adjustments
Last verified: January 10, 2026