Common Level Ratio Rises in Allegheny County

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | June 30, 2016

No. 1,267

The Common Level Ratio, established by the State Board of Equalization, increased from 1.09 to 1.15, effective tomorrow, July 1, 2016.

This means that if a property is assessed at $100,000 and is transferred for lees-than-arms-length consideration, the realty transfer tax was formerly paid on $100,000 x 1.09 or $109,000.  Now it is $100,000 x 1.15 or $115,000.

The purpose of this procedure is to bring such transactions as close as possible to fair market value when computing transfer tax.

CLT

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