Assessors

The tax rate for Fiscal Year 2024 (July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024) is $15.20 per thousand dollars of value. Tax rates from 1963 to the present are available by clicking Brookfield Tax Rates

As we enter another year with our new CAMA software, Patriot AssessPro, we are pleased to announce Brookfield's FY2024 tax rate will drop to $15.20 per thousand in value from last year's rate of $15.90. This marks 7th year in a row the tax rate has dropped and the lowest tax rate for Brookfield since FY2011 and this new rate is 22.53% lower than the FY2017 tax rate of $19.62 which was the highest tax rate we had had in the past 35 years

We would like to thank everyone for their help throughout the year, Al & Patty

The Assessors office is responsible for the valuation of real and personal property for the purpose of levying the property tax. The assessors are also responsible for submitting the tax rate recapitulation sheet to the Department of Revenue, although the preparation of this document a team effort with the Town's finance officials. Assessors have the authority to grant real estate and motor vehicle abatements and exemptions to taxpayers, subject to the authority provided by State of Massachusetts law.

Members of Brookfield's Board of Assessors are elected to 3 year terms by the voters at the annual town election. The Principal and Assistant Assessors are appointed by the Board.

FORMS AVAILABLE ONLINE:

Click here for a Motor Vehicle Excise Abatement application - Please keep in mind you need to include proof of the following when you turn in the application: What happened to the vehicle and what happened to the license plate.