OFFICE OF THE CITY ASSESSOR

Declare your Real Property Honestly and Make your City Wealthy

 Vision/Mission:

The City Assessor's Office, as partner in the transformation of Butuan City into financially self-sustaining local government unit, shall:

Discover, list, appraise and assess all real property situated within the jurisdiction of Butuan in accordance with existing assessment rules and regulations.

Maintain a systematic and effective accounting and inventory of real property units though computerized RPTA System.

General Function:

Appraise and assess all real properties, like: lands,buildings,machineries, and other improvements, for taxation purposes.             

Objectives:

To install and maintain real property identification and accounting system through computerized programming;

To undertake the activities in updating the existing tax mapping and assessment of real properties in order to have a complete coverage of real properties;

To ensure uniformity, regularity, and consistency in the application and enforcement of policies, rules and regulations governing the administration of real properties; and

To appraise all real properties at fair market value and conduct regular ocular inspections to determine if they are properly assessed.

Department Function:

The Office of the City Assessor as mandated under Book II of R.A. 7160, otherwise known as Local Government Code of 1991, shall perform the following:

Ensure that all laws and policies governing the appraisal and assessment of real properties for taxation purposes are properly executed;

Initiate, review and recommend changes in policies and objectives, plans and programs, techniques, procedures and practices in the valuation and assessment of real properties for taxation purposes;

Establish a systematic method of real property assessment;Install and maintain a system of tax mapping, showing graphically all property subject to assessment and gather all data concerning the same;

Prepare, install and maintain a system of tax mapping, showing graphically all property subject to assessment and gather all data concerning the same;

Conduct frequent physical surveys to verify and determine whether all real properties within the province are properly listed in the assessment rolls;

Exercise the functions of appraisal and assessment primarily for taxation purposes of all real properties in the local government unit concerned;

Prepare a schedule of the fair market value for the different classes of real properties, in accordance with the Title Two, Book II of the Local Government Code;

Issue, upon the request of any interested party, certified copies of assessment records of real property and all other records relative to its assessment, upon payment of a service charge of free charge or fee to the treasurer;

Submit every semester a report of all assessments, as well as cancellations and modifications of assessments, to the local chief executive and sanggunian concerned; and

Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions maybe prescribed by law or ordinance.