August 1, 2025
To: County Clerks, County Treasurers, Real Property Listers, Register of Deeds,
Primary Assessors Statutory Assessors, Municipal Clerks, Municipal Treasurers, TID Subscriber List
Today, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) posted its preliminary 2025 Equalized Values, Tax Incremental District (TID) Values, Net New Construction Report, and County Apportionment Report.
DOR posts the 2025 preliminary Equalized Values along with the other reports, to provide each municipality and respective municipal staff, an opportunity to review all values before they are certified.
Assessed Value Information
- Municipal value changes are based on the Municipal Assessment Reports DOR
received by the June 9, 2025 filing deadline
- Municipal assessed value changes are part of the Equalized, TID, and NNC values
- See "Guidelines for Warranted Changes" below for information on changes made during the preliminary review process
Information Available for Review – August 7 review deadline
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Net New Construction and TID Values
- Municipal assessor provides the assessed values used by DOR to calculate net new construction and TID full values. Note: Full values may contain corrections to the prior year's values.
- If you would like to review the assessed values reported to DOR, contact your municipal assessor
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Equalized Values – reflects all value changes to your municipality
Additional Information
Guidelines for Warranted Changes
- If DOR determines any changes to the preliminary values are warranted, we will make the changes before certifying the values
- DOR will make changes to preliminary values following these thresholds:
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Greater than 2% of the Equalized Value or TID Value – will adjust the 2025 value
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2% or less of the Equalized Value or TID Value – will make an adjustment to the 2026 value
- We will not apply value changes resulting from an amended Municipal Assessment Report (MAR) filed after the second Monday in June. These changes will become an adjustment to the 2026 Equalized Value.
- If necessary, DOR will contact the municipal assessor to discuss and confirm changes
Timeline
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August 7 – deadline for municipalities to contact an
Equalization Bureau District Office about the preliminary values
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August 15 – DOR publishes the 2025 Final Equalized Values, TID Values, Net New Construction Report and County Apportionment Report, and notifies stakeholders
Available Reports
Statement of Changes in Equalized ValuesIncludes:
- 2025 total Equalized Values
- 2024 total Equalized Values
- Amount and percent change from 2024
- Prior year corrections
- Detailed adjustments to the Equalized Values
Tax Incremental District ValuesIncludes:
- 2025 TID Values
- 2025 TID Value increment
- 2024 TID Values
- Amount and percent change from 2024
- Locally assessed TID Values
- Manufacturing TID Values
- Prior year corrections
Tax Incremental Finance Value LimitationIncludes:
- TID base year
- 2025 TID current Value and municipal total
- 2025 TID Value increment and municipal total
- 2025 municipal Equalized Values
- 5%, 7% or 12% test
Net New Construction – SummaryIncludes:
- 2025 net new construction – amount of net new construction that occurred during calendar year 2024.
Note: This may include prior year corrections.
- 2024 Equalized Values
- Net new construction as a percent of the 2024 Equalized Value.
Note: This percent is a factor in levy limit calculations.
County ApportionmentIncludes:
- 2025 Equalized Values reduced by 2024 TID Increment Values
- 2025 apportionment as a percent of total county value (reduced by total TID increment)
- 2025 TID Value Increments
Additional Information
For more information on the Equalization process and uses of Equalized Values, review the
Wisconsin's Equalized Values publication on our website.
Questions?
Contact the
district office in your area.