2007 Notice of Property Valuation & Tax Change

Search Help

The purpose of this web site is to help property owners better understand how their property is valued and taxed in Salt Lake County. The valuation data presented is a subset of the data from which each property's Notice of Valuation and Tax Change, also known as Truth in Tax Notice, is printed. The County Assessor provides the property characteristics data.

The web site supplements the information mailed to you as your Truth in Tax Notice in several ways. First, after finding the property you are interested in, it shows current proposed valuation and tax for the property, shows a tax history, and calculates effective tax rates and percentages of total tax levied by each taxing entity. From that report you can navigate to three other types of pages that provide additional information. One type allows you to see the valuation of properties similar to yours in location and value. Another page shows an abbreviated legal description for your property (please note the disclaimer on that page). Finally, there are pages that allow you to view property characteristic data used by the County Assessor in determining the fair market value of your property.

A Note to Commercial Users

This web site is not intended for commercial use by title companies, mortgage companies, law firms, and so forth. It does not give ownership data, nor is the data the most current available. Accordingly, it should not be relied upon for commercial purposes.

This site uses a snapshot of the tax data as of the date the Truth in Tax notice is run, and no attempt is made to keep the data synchronized with changes that occur in the live tax system. For commercial users, the County Recorder provides current information on-line. Access to this data, however, requires a subscription. You will find information on how to obtain a new "Data Service" account at the Recorder's Home Page.

How to Look Up a Property

There are two ways to look up a property on this web page. They are Parcel Search and Address Search. Tips for each kind of search are found below.

Owner Search

This site was intentionally designed to search without the use of owner name, unless the individual doing the search knows both the address and the owner. Ommission of the search by owner feature provides some degree of privacty. Additionally, it also avoids putting any individual's safety at risk. Generally speaking, owner information is provided on-line by the Recorder, but not without a subscription service. For more information on how to obtain owner information on-line, please go to the Recorder's web site, or contact them at 801-468-3391.

Parcel Search

Parcel search is the fastest and easiest way to find a property, provided that you know the parcel number. If you do not have a parcel number, try an address search. Click here to jump to Address Search help.

Tip #1: Your parcel number can be found on your truth-in-tax notice.
If you have a copy of a tax notice or truth-in-tax valuation notice for your property, the parcel number will appear on the notice in the form 00-00-000-000-0000 with actual numbers instead of zeroes.

Tip #2: Dashes are not required.
You do not have to include dashes in your parcel number to perform a successful search.

Tip #3: You only have to enter 10 digits.
The first ten digits of the parcel are all that’s needed for most properties where the last four digits are zeroes. The web page will search successfully if the first ten digits of the parcel are correctly entered. If the last four digits are not zeroes, you will find your property faster by entering all fourteen numbers in your search.

Address Search

Many people will not have their tax notice or truth-in-tax valuation notice available, and therefore cannot use search by parcel. For them, address search capability is provided. Click here to jump to Parcel Search help.

Search Field Definitions

Frontage Number or Directional
The frontage numbers are the first numbers of any address. This number is required. Directionals are the north, east, south, and west designations which follow the frontage number. A single letter representing a directional must be selected from the drop down list. The default is N and will remain as such unless another is selected. Only the first directional of the address is required to perform a search.

Street Name
The street name is the first descriptor which follows the first directional. For example, the street Highland Drive can also be referred to as 2000 East. The street name descriptors are Highland or 2000. Either one of these names must be provided. You will note that street names used in a search do not require any path type or second directional information.

Owner Name
The "Owner Name" is the last name of the individual that holds title to the property.

Address Search Tips

Tip #1: Only the first 4 characters of a street name are required.
If you do not know the exact spelling of your street name, don't worry. Just the first four characters of the street name are required to perform a successful search. For streets names that are numeric, such as "1400 West,"omit the directional. Additional, unit, suite, apartment number, etc., designations are not used in searches and can be omitted.

Tip #2: Try Street Name variations and aliases.
If one way of typing your street doesn’t work, try another. There are several kinds of street name variations. For example WILLOWCREEK and WILLOW CREEK are one example of a spelling or a punctuation variation. A numbered street may have an alias. For example, 2000 E is also referred to as TWENTIETH EAST or even HIGHLAND DRIVE. In your search, you will be most successful if you enter the street number rather than spell it out. Accordingly, try the street number first, and then if you are still unsuccessful, try the street name(s).

Tip #3: Use Owner Name when Street Names are unusual or the spelling is unknown.
There are some County Standard street names that no normal human being will ever guess such as, UTWOOONE HWY. In these cases, or in cases where you are unsure of the street name spelling, you can use just the first four characters of the street name in combination with the owner name to help the computer find your property. The frontage number, directional and at least the first four characters of the street name must be provided. A search without any street name information is not permitted even if owner information is provided.
Note: To protect the public's privacy, owner names are intentionally not provided.

Tip #4: Enter only the address component requested.
There are hundreds of ways to type the same address, but the computer will only recognize one of them. Addresses in the Property Tax System are in a standardized form of Frontage Number, Directional, Street Name, Street Type, #Unit Locator. To perform a successful search, the computer must identify these components individually. To avoid errors, only enter the address component requested.

Tip #5: Don't worry about upper and lower case.
You don't need to waste time worrying about whether street name or owner name should be in lower case or upper case letters. All addresses in the database are stored in upper case, but the computer knows this and will convert whatever you type to upper case before it does a search.

Tip #6: Use the "None" directional only when you know your address does not contain one.
If you select "None" as a directional, the program will not search addresses that contain them. If a directional is selected, the program searches both addresses with and without directionals. Consequently, this feature is best used and retrieves results fastest when the user knows that a directional is not part of the address.

Definitions & Terms

Neighborhood Codes

The Assessor's office has associated a 4-digit code to pre-determined geographical areas in Salt Lake County called, "neighborhoods." This search type retrieves all properties with the same code. Since "neighborhoods" encompasses a much larger area (than a block), this type of search retrieves significantly more data and requires more time to complete.

"Proposed"

In this context, the word "Proposed" represents the market values and tax assessments which exist prior to appeals and tax rate changes. Adjustments in market values can occur as a result of an appeal. And tax rates can change if a taxing entity decides to change its rate. Any changes in market value or tax rates result in a different tax assessment. Once market values and tax rates are finalized, a final tax assessment can be computed; the final market values and tax assessment for the current year will not show up on our site until the following year. When they do, they are simply shown under the prior year's market value and tax assessment.

General Operation, Navigation, and Common Problems

Tip #1: Make sure your browser does NOT cache pages for this site.
Failure to turn off cacheing is a common problem. This site's pages are generated dynamically so page cacheing should be turned off. Failure to turn cacheing off will result in old pages and incorrect results. To turn off page cacheing in Internet Explorer, select Tools > Internet options > Setting > Every Visit to Page option.

Tip #2: Your Browser must be set to accept cookies.
If cookies are not enabled, initiating a search will produce no results; the page will look the same as though nothing happened. If cookies are enabled and you still are not getting a result, please check the following:

1. You may be running software that interferes with cookie usage. There are many filtering and blocking software packages available for Internet users that filter cookies. If you are running software like this, then your computer may not be able to receive or send cookies.

2. Some browsers such as Internet Explorer require you to enable cookies at both the internet and intranet levels. Check your browser's Internet Options security settings and make sure that cookies are enabled at both the internet and intranet levels.

3. Your machine may be behind a firewall or proxy server which prevents cookie transmission. This most often occurs in corporate environments. For assistance with firewall and proxy server configuration problems, please contact your technical support person.

Tip #3: Use the "Clear" or browser refresh buttons to clean up your screen.
If you want to quickly eliminate previously entered information and/or program error messages, press one of the search pages' "Clear" buttons or your browser's refresh button.

Tip #4: "NA" means the computation is not applicable because of insufficient data.

Technical Assistance

There is no full-time technical support for this site. However, the site's administrator will respond within 24 hours to questions and comments submitted via e-mail.

Property Valuation & Tax Contacts

For questions relating to this, . . .	Follow this link.	Or call this number.
Any property tax question	Tax Administration	468-3645
Tax notices, missing notice, property location address change (For tax notice address changes, see the Treasurer.)	Auditor	468-3381
Property values or assessments, assessment methodology, property characteristics defenitions, characteristics errors	Assessor	468-3050
Property ownership, on-line access to ownership data, legal descriptions, parcel maps, custom inquiries for: tax, parcel or GIS data	Recorder	468-3391
Taxes due, payment procedures, payment deadlines, delinquent taxes, tax notice address change	Treasurer	468-3400
Truth-in-Tax web site technical support		468-3796