On or before Aug. 10, Johnson County will be sending out more than 230,000 notices of proposed property tax increases and public hearings to property owners as required by Kansas law. As a reminder, the notices are not bills and should not be paid.

The law requires counties to send taxpayers a notification of the revenue neutral rate compared to the proposed tax rates for each taxing entity that exceeds its revenue neutral rate.

The revenue neutral rate represents the mill levy rate that would generate the same property tax revenue as levied the previous year, based on the current tax year’s June 1 certified assessed valuation. The notices provide the dates, times and locations for public hearings to be held by each taxing authority intending to exceed their revenue neutral rate.

This year, the Kansas Legislature passed some changes to the law that regulates this process. The changes include four new columns with additional information on each authority’s proposed tax revenue, along with the addition of total amounts at the end of each column.

To accommodate these changes in legible font size, the notice will be printed on legal-sized paper with the front displaying the hearing information and FAQs in portrait layout and the back providing the property information in landscape layout.

Property taxes are calculated November 1, and the actual tax may increase or decrease from these estimates. Property tax statements will be issued later in November. First-half tax payments are due on or before Dec. 20.

Property owners can print their notices by searching their property with a quick reference number or address at taxbill.jocogov.org. This feature will be available later next week. For additional information, please visit jocogov.org/estimatedtaxnotice.