Weare property owners can expect to receive their tax bills sometime around Thanksgiving, town officials say.

Auditors from the Department of Revenue Administration were expected to review tax projections with the town’s assessing and tax departments on Nov. 17, said Tina Pelletier, the town’s finance clerk and deputy tax collector.

Results from that meeting were not available at press time. However, Pelletier said she expected the process to go smoothly and tax bills to arrive shortly thereafter.

“I usually have (the tax bills) out two or three days after we’ve gone over the numbers with the DRA,” said Pelletier.

The state has already received Weare’s tax numbers, and auditor Bob Anderson is expected to confirm the figures with Weare officials, Pelletier said.

Tax bills will be ready to go out once selectmen have signed off on the new tax rate and information is merged between the town assessing and tax offices, Pelletier said.

Approximately 4,300 tax bills are expected to go out to local homes and businesses this year, Pelletier said.

Although most other towns in New Hampshire received their tax bills around the first of November, Weare experienced a delay due to administrative changes and an ongoing revaluation, Pelletier said.

The town recently completed a three-year revaluation process, conducted by the assessing firm of Avitar Associates and finished in the summer this year, Pelletier said. There was also some transition time between the resignation of a former finance clerk in May 2005 and Pelletier taking over the position in September of this year, she said.

Weare’s 2005 tax rate was $28.96 per $1,000 of assessed value, said Deputy town clerk Maureen Billodeau. That tax rate broke down to a town portion of $4.02, a local school amount of $18.57, state portion of $4.43, and county accounting for $1.94.

The equalization ratio for 2005 was 49.2 percent, while Billodeau said town officials expect this year’s ratio to approach 100 percent.