State offers some property tax refunds

By Staff
Alabama will refund property taxes to state residents who did not receive homestead exemptions that a new Attorney General’s opinion says they were entitled to.
The move comes after an Attorney General’s opinion released on Oct. 25 that sought to clarify the application of tax exemptions to jointly-owned properties for the disabled and those older than 65.
The policy change came about after the Examiners of Public Accounts said an earlier AG opinion, written in 1979 by then-Attorney General Charles Graddick, requires county revenue commissioners to grant joint property owners a homestead exemption based on their ownership interest in the property
Property owners who have paid taxes in error during the last two years are urged to contact their local collecting official for refund procedures applicable to their particular county.