The Tax Collectors Office will be closing early on May 9th at Noon time.  

Certified Impending Lien Letters were sent on Tuesday 3/11 with a deadline of May 9th by Noon.  After May 9th a lien will be recorded with the Hillsborough County Registry of Deeds and interest rate will increase to 12% per RSA 80:69

First Installment of 2025 taxes will be mailed by May 30th and will be due by July 1st 2025.  If a property owner has not received their tax bill, they should contact the Tax Office at 603-673-6041 Ext. 201 immediately.  Failure to receive the tax bill does not justify non-payment or the waiver in interest due for payment beyond the due date.

 2024 TAX RATE BREAKDOWN
Town                       $   4.71
County                     $   1.10
Local Education      $  15.56
State Education      $    1.56
Total                        $ 22.93             

PAYMENT OPTIONS:  
Online tax payments may be processed at www.amherstnh.gov/tax-collector. (See left side bar)
U.S.Mailed payments should be sent to:
      On Time Payments:  Town of Amherst Tax Collector, c/o Citizens Bank,            P. O. Box 9695, Manchester, NH  03108-9695 

      Payments Beyond Due Date:  Town of Amherst Tax Collector, 2 Main Street, Amherst, NH  03031

Dropbox Payments:  The front door of Town Hall is unlocked and a drop box is located in the lobby where payments may be inserted for processing between the hours of 8am and 4pm Monday through Friday.  Most banking institutions provide an electronic copy of your check for your records which may be retained as receipt of payment.  If an additional receipt is required from the Tax Office, you may include a self addressed stamped envelope or your email address and a receipt will be provided.   For easier access to  drop off tax payments and other correspondence, a mail slot has been added to the rear door of Town Hall which can be accessed  24 hours a day, seven days a week.  

The 2025 tax rate will be set by the Department of Revenue Administration in late October of 2025.

The real estate tax year runs from April 1st through the following year. Your taxes are based on the assessed value of your home on April 1st of any year. Under the law, your first half bill is one half of your total prior year bill, plus taxes due to any physical changes that were made to your property in the last tax year. The tax rate is set in late October at which time your final taxes due are established less a credit of your prepayment in July. The rate below is calculated so that the town’s budget for the year will be covered by the property taxes collected. 

The assessed ratio is computed by the state at the end of each year. It represents what the average assessed value of all Amherst properties represent when compared with real estate sales that year. For example, an assessed ratio of 80% means that the Amherst assessed values, on average, represent 80% of the current real estate values, based on sales in town that year.