North Dakota homeowners can apply online for a property tax credit of up to $1,600 between Jan. 1 and April 1, and four other states have their own spring cutoffs for older homeowners. Georgia’s Forsyth County runs to April 1, Knox County in Tennessee to April 5, Concord in New Hampshire to April 15 and Sussex County in Delaware to April 30. The windows open in the weeks ahead, and each program asks for different paperwork.
Anyone who owns a home in one of these places has to sort out which break is theirs: a flat state credit, a school tax exemption, a freeze or a valuation cut. Three of the five are decided county by county or town by town, so a deadline in one county says nothing about the next one over…