As homeowners across Guilford County open their 2026 revaluation notices and see sharply higher home values, state lawmakers in Raleigh are taking a closer look at whether North Carolina’s property tax relief system needs an overhaul.
A bill filed in the North Carolina General Assembly – House Bill 432 in the 2025-26 session – directs the legislature’s Revenue Laws Study Committee to examine possible expansions to existing property tax relief programs for elderly and disabled homeowners and disabled veterans.
While the bill doesn’t immediately change the law, it outlines ideas that, if ultimately adopted, could directly affect homeowners in Guilford County, where many residential properties are showing significant increases compared to the last revaluation. It would of course affect the other 99 counties as well…