A Request for Review is not an appeal, and the difference is expensive
Updated 2026-08-27.
It asks the Department of Finance to look again at what it knows about your property. It does not put the assessment in front of the body that can reduce it, and it buys you nothing at the Tax Commission.
What does it actually do?
Finance describes it two ways on two pages, and both are narrower than owners assume. It is the form to submit if you believe Finance has made an error in determining your market value, and it is how you ask Finance to review your property's description or bring other errors to its attention. It is Finance reconsidering Finance.
The deadlines, which are not the appeal deadlines
| Filing | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Request for Review, tax class 1 properties | March 15 |
| Request for Review, all other properties | April 1 |
| Request to Update Vacant Land Description | April 1 |
When is it the right filing?
- The square footage, unit count, floor count or land area on the notice is wrong, because that record belongs to Finance and the Tax Commission will not correct it.
- The estimated market value rests on a factual error about the property rather than on a judgment about what it is worth.
- A clerical error needs correcting on the assessment.
- Outdated or inaccurate information needs updating, which Finance takes on a Request to Update rather than a Request for Review.
When is it not enough on its own?
Whenever the number itself is the dispute. A wrong description often produces a wrong value, and correcting the description is the right first move, but only an Application for Correction at the Tax Commission puts the assessed value in front of somebody with the authority to lower it. If both are wrong, both get filed, and the Tax Commission one gets prepared first because it is the one with the shorter fuse. The calendar is on the deadlines page.