Scottsdale, AZ property tax: how to look up your bill, what the city charges, and when it's due

You can look it up online in a couple of minutes at treasurer.maricopa.gov. Maricopa County bills and collects property tax for the city, and the Assessor's site says it does not compute or mail the bills. The Treasurer's home page takes a parcel or account number, a name, or an address, and what comes up is the bill for the year, split into two payments.

I'm Jen Keene, a REALTOR® with eXp Realty Luxury in Scottsdale, AZ, and I'm the agent people call at every stage of their life. Two county offices handle your tax, and they do different jobs. The Treasurer's Office sends the bill, takes your payment, and can tell you what's owed. The Assessor's Office determines the value the tax is based on. "What do I owe and when" goes to the Treasurer, and "why is the value what it is" goes to the Assessor.

1. Go to treasurer.maricopa.gov. The tax search is on the home page.
2. Enter a parcel number if you have one. According to the Treasurer, you enter only the first eight numbers, followed by the letter if there is one.
3. No parcel number? Search by address or name. The Treasurer's search takes an address, a name, or a business name.
4. Once you're on the record, you can see what's owed and pay online. The Treasurer's payment page lists e-check, debit and credit cards, and digital wallets.
5. For the value itself, what it is, how it was set, or how to appeal it, go to mcassessor.maricopa.gov, which has its own search by address or parcel.

If you'd rather skip the paper bill, the Treasurer's home page says to use the eNoticesOnline authorization code from your tax bill to sign up for paperless billing.

For the 2026/27 fiscal year, the City of Scottsdale's property tax rate is $0.4708 primary and $0.4267 secondary, a combined $0.8975 per $100 of assessed valuation, according to the Maricopa County 2026 tax rate table. A June 2026 memo from the City Treasurer's Office to the City Council gives the same figures. The year before, the city's rate was $0.4891 primary and $0.4233 secondary, a combined $0.9124. A City Council report explains that a city's primary tax pays for general municipal purposes and its secondary tax pays off bond debt.

That is the city's piece and nothing more. The county, your school district, the community college district and any special district that reaches your address each set their own rate, and the Treasurer adds them into one bill. Two homes inside Scottsdale can carry different totals if they sit in different school districts or special districts.

The Assessor sets two values on your property every year. Full Cash Value is meant to track what the home would sell for. Limited Property Value is the number that gets taxed, and under Arizona's Proposition 117 it can rise by no more than 5% a year and can never be higher than Full Cash Value (A.R.S. 42-13301). For an owner-occupied home, Arizona law sets the assessment ratio at 10%, so the figure the tax rates apply to is 10% of the Limited Property Value.

The rates are not one number either. According to Maricopa County, the bill can include the county, your city, your school district, the state and special taxing districts, and the county's rate table also lists a community college district. Because the Limited Property Value moves by as much as 5% a year, a bill from a year or two ago can already be out of date, so check the Assessor's current figure for the specific property.

Under Arizona law (A.R.S. 42-18052), the first half is due October 1 and becomes delinquent after 5 p.m. on November 1, and the second half is due March 1 and becomes delinquent after 5 p.m. on May 1. You can also pay the full year by December 31 and skip the second payment, and the Treasurer's calendar lists that date as the last day to pay the full year without interest. If the whole year's tax is $100 or less, it isn't split. It's due in full October 1 and becomes delinquent after 5 p.m. on December 31. Once a payment is delinquent, interest runs at 16% a year, simple interest, and a fraction of a month counts as a whole month (A.R.S. 42-18053).

This year: November 1, 2026 is a Sunday, and the same statute moves a weekend delinquency date to 5 p.m. on the next business day. So the first-half deadline for 2026 is 5 p.m. on Monday, November 2, and the Treasurer's calendar lists that date. AZFamily reported on September 30, 2026 that Maricopa County sent some bills later than usual, with officials pointing to late changes to the levy and rates and problems rolling out a new computer system, and that you can view and pay online without waiting for the mailed bill. Check the Treasurer's calendar for the current dates.

The Assessor mails a Notice of Value before March 1 each year (A.R.S. 42-15101), showing your Full Cash Value and your Limited Property Value for the coming tax year. That notice is the one to read, because it's also when your appeal window opens.

You have 60 days from the date the Assessor mailed it to file an appeal (A.R.S. 42-16051), and the Assessor accepts appeals online. According to the Assessor, you can appeal the Full Cash Value and the classification, but not the Limited Property Value. Bring your own opinion of what the home is worth and something to back it up, like comparable sales, a recent appraisal, or photos of a condition issue the office wouldn't otherwise know about. A court appeal has its own deadline of December 15 (A.R.S. 42-16201), so ask the Assessor which year applies to you.

Notices go out before March 1, so by the time the tax bill arrives in the fall the 60 days on the notice has usually run out. Open the notice when it comes.

Arizona's Senior Valuation Protection program lets a qualifying homeowner freeze their Limited Property Value for three years. According to the Maricopa County Assessor, at least one owner must be 65 or older, the home must have been your primary residence for two years, and household income from all sources must be under a limit the Assessor publishes, so check the current figure on the Assessor's Senior Valuation Protection page. The freeze has to be renewed every three years.

The Assessor's form says the program does not freeze your property taxes, it freezes the taxable portion of your property value. Each district can still change its rate, so your bill can still move.

The application window runs from January 1 through September 1 each year, and the Assessor says a late application is processed for the following tax year. For 2026 that window has closed, and the Assessor says 2027 applications open after January 1, 2027.

The city doesn't send its own bill. One combined bill comes from the county, and it includes the city's share along with the school district's, the state's and any special district's.

An old mailing address. If the county has an old address on file, the Notice of Value and the bill can both go to the wrong place, and the 60-day appeal clock keeps running.

Last year's bill as this year's answer. The Limited Property Value can move by up to 5% a year, and the districts can change their rates, so check the current figures.

The senior freeze deadline. The application window closes September 1, so apply early in the year if you think you qualify.

If you're buying, look up the actual bill for a specific property at treasurer.maricopa.gov before you write an offer, because that's a better number than a guess from what a neighbor pays. Here's where that fits into what your budget actually buys. If you're moving here from out of state, here's what else changes when you relocate to Scottsdale.

If you're selling, prorated property taxes up to the closing date are one of the lines at closing, and here's how closing costs work in Arizona. Here's how I work out what your home is worth. If you're also moving to something smaller, here's how I handle that part of the move.

If you just need the number, go to treasurer.maricopa.gov and search by parcel, address or name. If you want to know why the value is what it is, mcassessor.maricopa.gov has your value figures and the appeal portal.

If you're buying or selling in Scottsdale and want help reading a specific bill or a Notice of Value, get in touch or call me at (480) 203-6605, and bring the parcel number or the address.