By Mark Jurkowitz | Outer Banks Voice
In the wake of the 2025 revaluation that saw overall Dare County property values rise by 67 percent, property owners get the final word after 48,913 tax bills were mailed out on Aug. 8, according to Dare County Tax Collector Becky Huff.
Huff added that the taxes are due on Sept. 1 and will be considered delinquent after Jan. 5.
After this year’s revaluation, the total value of taxable properties in the county was reported to be just under $27.5 billion compared to the $16.4 billion in assessed value in 2024 before the revaluation. When the last county revaluation occurred in 2020, the tax base was $15.9 billion.
On April 1, Dare County announced that the 2025 revaluation notices with the new values had been sent out. When the deadline for informal appeals of the new property values passed on May 2, Dare County Assessor Hosea Wilson reported that 1,523 of those appeals had been filed.
Wilson also reported that roughly 200 appraisals were appealed to the Board of Equalization and Review by the later June 6 deadline. He explains that if there was no appeal filed by that date, there is no avenue left to appeal the 2025 real property values.
In response to the jump in property values, the Dare County Board of Commissioners announced in April that the county’s new “revenue neutral” tax rate would drop from 40.05 cents per $100 of value to $26.32 per $100.
The Dare County municipalities also decreased their FY 2025-26 ad valorem tax rates following the increases in property values. Those overall values went up almost 50% in Manteo; 59% in Nags Head; 69% in Kill Devil Hills; 59% in Kitty Hawk; 74% in Southern Shores; and 73% in Duck.
As Wilson notes, Dare County bills and collects property taxes for all the county municipalities with the exception of Nags Head, which issues their own bills.
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