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- Veterans: During the 2025 legislative session, the New Hampshire General Court passed House Bill 99, amending RSA 72:35. It took effect on July 13, 2025. How will this change affect you? If you currently receive the regular veterans' credit ($500) and the disabled veterans' credit ($2,000), you will no longer receive both starting April 1, 2026. You can choose to receive one or the other.
- The legislature also amended RSA 72:35, I-a to allow for a town to vote to increase the service-connected totally and permanently disabled credit to $5000.
- Title Pirates are active and lurking right here in Pelham. Register your property with the Hillsborough County Registry of Deeds. If you suspect someone is trying to scam you out of your property, you can call the NH Attorney General's Consumer Protection Hotline at 888-468-4454 or the FBI Regional Office at 603-472-2224.
2025 Tax Rate is $ 19.09 per $1000 in value
- Town Rate: $5.44
- School Rate: $11.17
- County Rate: $1.18
- State Education: $1.30
Our Equalization Ratio for 2025 has not been established. However, the 2024 equalization is at 76.7% meaning overall assessed values in Town are 23.3% below the fair market value for April 1, 2024.
The change in your final 2025 tax bill is for all of 2025. If you have questions about understanding your bill, please call this office at 603-635-3317 or the Tax Collector's Office at 603-635-2040 for clarification. Questions regarding the setting of the tax rate should be directed to the Board of Selectmen's Office.
2021 was our recertification year from the Department of Revenue Administration (DRA). If you have any questions about the revaluation / re-certification process, please contact the Assessing Department between the hours of 8 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday. If you believe your assessed value to be wrong due to a data error or proportionally higher / lower than similar properties, please file an abatement no later than March 2, 2026. The application must be delivered via mail or hand-delivered. We cannot accept email applications.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Assessor's Department at 603-635-3317 with any questions or concerns.
FAQs
Is My Assessment Correct?
The following FAQs and accompanying information can help you to decide if your assessment is correct
- Can I sell my property for that amount?
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The first thing that you should do is ask yourself if you could sell the property for approximately that amount.
- Does the Assessing department have the correct information on my property?
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You can review the information that the Assessing Department has collected on your property to make sure the data is accurate. The information is available online, or it can be reviewed at the Assessor's Office. While reviewing your property, you should make sure that all measurements on the sketch are accurate. Please note that all measurements are taken from the exterior. You should also check the land size and interior data to ensure accuracy.
- How much are similar properties in my neighborhood selling for?
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Make sure that you choose recent sales that are similar to your own property. For instance, if you owned a 2,000 square foot Colonial that is assessed for $350,000 and has ½ acre of land, you would look for similar properties in Town. You can research sales in the assessing office to find properties that are located as close to your property as possible before you make any comparisons. If you know of any properties that sold in your area, you can access these properties in the database.
- How much have similar properties in my neighborhood been assessed for?
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If you do not have any recent sales activity in your local area, you can look up the assessed value of similar parcels that are located near your property. Please be aware that what may appear to be a similar parcel may in fact be very different from your property.
- My property value has doubled. Are my taxes are going to double?
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If you are concerned that your taxes are going to double because your property value has doubled, that is not the case. Since everyone else's property value is also rising, the tax rate usually drops proportionally to the amount of total increase in a City or Town's total value.