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 Send the completed form to
The Assessing Department
1280 N. Irish Road
Davison, MI 48423
or fax to 810-658-3435.

This form must be filed when there is a transfer of real property or one of the following types of personal property:

  • Building on leased land

  • Leasehold improvements (as defined in MCL Section 211.8 (h).

  • Leasehold estates (as defined in MCL Section 211.8(i) and (j).

Transfer of ownership means the conveyance of title to or a present interest in property, including the beneficial use of the property.  It includes, but is not limited to, the following conveyances:

  • Deeds

  • Land contract

  • Transfer into a trust, unless the sole beneficiary is the settler (creator of the trust), settler's spouse, or both

  • Changes in the sole present beneficiary of trust, unless the change only adds or substitutes the spouse of the sole present beneficiary

  • Distributions by a will or interstate succession, unless to the decedent's spouse

  • Leases, if the total duration of the lease is more than 35 years, including the initial term and all options for renewal, or if the lease grants the lessee the right to purchase the property at the end of the lease for not more than 80% of the property's projected true cash value at the end of the lease.  This only applies to the portion of the property subject to the lease described above

  • Transfers of more than 50% interest in the ownership of a business, unless the ownership is gained through the normal public trading of shares of stock

  • Transfers of property held as a tenancy in common, except the portion of the property not subject to the ownership interest conveyed

  • A conveyance of an ownership interest in a cooperative housing corporation, except that portion of the property not subject to the ownership interest conveyed

For complete descriptions of qualifying transfers, please refer to MCL Section 211.27 a (6) (a-j).

EXCERPTS FROM MICHIGAN COMPILED LAWS (MCL), CHAPTER 211

Section 211.27 a (8)

"...the buyer, grantee, or other transferee of the property shall notify the appropriate assessing office in the local unit of government in which the property is located of the transfer of ownership of the property within 45 days of the transfer of ownership, on a form prescribed by the state tax commission that states the parties to the transfer, the date of the transfer, the actual consideration for the transfer, and the property's parcel identification number or legal description."

Section 211.27 (5)

"Beginning December 31, 1994, the purchase price paid in a transfer of property is not the presumptive true cash value of the property transferred.  In determining the true cash value of transferred property, an assessing officer shall assess that property using the same valuation method used to value all other property of that same classification in the assessing jurisdiction."