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Allegheny County Moves Tax Appeal Deadline to October 1 - Limited Time for Assessment Relief

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In Allegheny County, tax appeal season has already begun for 2025. For every tax year, County property owners have the ability to file an assessment appeal. ...more

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Assessors Allowed to Use “Anticipated” Vacancy in Making Assessments

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Developer beware! In Wisconsin, assessors may use an “anticipated” vacancy in making assessments. Veritas Village LLC, the owner of a property with 189 apartments in Madison, contested the city's assessment of its property at...more

Maynard Nexsen

North Carolina Property Owners - New Property Valuations are out. How do I contest my valuation?

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Did you recently receive a real property revaluation notice? If you live in one of 21 counties across the state, the answer is yes! These counties revalued all of their commercial and residential property for ad valorem tax...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Lower 2024 Ratio - New Opportunities for Reducing Your Property Tax Assessment

In Allegheny County, tax appeal season has begun for 2024. Every year, County property owners have the ability to file an assessment appeal. But this year there are unique opportunities for an assessment reduction....more

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Industrial Owners Seeking Fair Tax Treatment Should Differentiate Personal Property From Real Estate Values

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North Carolina taxes both real estate and personal property, but differing valuation schedules and processes for the two types can lead to confusion and inflated tax bills for industrial property owners. Understanding how...more

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State Supreme Court Decision Results in Continued Taxing Body Appeals

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GM Berkshire Hills LLC v. Berks County Board of Assessment (2023 Pa. LEXIS 272, February 28, 2023) – – Split Supreme Court Ruling Enables Taxing Body Assessment Appeals Based on Recent Sales to Remain - Counties, schools...more

Cole Schotz

The Freeze Act Remains Alive and Well – Freezing in Place Tax Assessments For Two Future Years and Preventing Towns From...

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The Tax Court confirmed in a recently decided case, Levy v. City of Long Branch, decided May 5, 2023, that ”Freeze Act” protections afforded all judgments of the Tax Court and County Tax Boards apply unless appropriate proofs...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Marion County, Indiana, Set to Increase Many 2022 Property Tax Assessments 10% or More

Taxpayers in Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, may be in for an unpleasant surprise when property tax bills are mailed out in the coming days. Based on assessment data available on the Marion County Assessor’s website,...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Lower 2023 Ratio, Court Case on 2022 Ratio, Extended Appeal Filing Period - New Opportunities for Lowering Your Property Tax...

In Allegheny County, tax appeal season has begun for 2023. Every year, County property owners have the opportunity to file an assessment appeal.  But this year there are unique opportunities for an assessment reduction....more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald Announces Opening of Special Appeal Period for 2022 Tax Year

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Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald today announced that a special appeal period for 2022 property assessments has now opened. Appeals may be filed by property owners or by taxing bodies for the 2022 tax year through...more

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

TO BUILD A POND: Does it impact your agricultural use exemption?

A landowner inherited a family timber tract located in Charleston County originally purchased by their grandfather as a timber investment property in 1936. Since that initial purchase, the family, through three (3)...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Now is the Time to Review Property Tax Valuations

Now is the time of year when counties are publishing, mailing or providing notices of property assessments as required by Ohio law. Ohio Revised Code 5715.17 provides that counties must give notice that valuation revisions...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Nassau County Commercial Real Property Tax Alert

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Annual Survey of Income and Expenses – ASIE-2021Pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code, Section 6-30, the Nassau County Department of Assessment (“the Assessor”) is requiring the submission of 2021 financial data...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Campground owned by For-Profit LLC and used by Boy Scouts of America qualified for a 100% Indiana Property Tax Exemption

A taxpayer does not have to be a non-profit corporation for its property to qualify for Indiana’s charitable purposes exemption. The Indiana Board of Tax Review confirmed this in a final determination issued on November 9,...more

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Commonwealth Court Approves Assessment Appeals Based on Recent Sales and Cost Benefit Analysis

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In the continuing litigation between taxing bodies and taxpayers over how and when taxing bodies may file property tax assessment appeals, Commonwealth Court recently issued a decision clarifying when such appeals may occur,...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Upcoming 2021 Municipal Revaluations in Connecticut

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Forty Connecticut municipalities are scheduled to conduct real property revaluations effective October 1, 2021. A list of the larger revaluing municipalities appears at the end of this alert. A revaluation notice containing...more

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2021 TRIM Notices: After the First Full Year of Covid-19

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This week, property appraisers from all 67 Florida counties will mail (or have mailed) Truth in Millage (TRIM) notices to property owners around the state, indicating the 2021 valuation for each property. If not already...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: Should Your Business File a Property Tax Appeal?

Taxpayers Have Options to Contest their Property Tax Bill - In the past month, California property tax bills have become due. While some markets are hot and property values are rising, commercial property values have...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Quick Property Tax Cuts:  Indiana Board of Tax Review Final Determinations (June – August 2020) – market data necessary; purchase...

Reports should “set out the main points in a series of short, crisp paragraphs. . . . Let us not shrink from using the short expressive phrase, even if it’s conversational.” Winston Churchill (as quoted in The Splendid and...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Indiana Tax Court affirms rejection of Tenant’s claims that Assessor improperly included value of land in taxable leasehold...

Name: Square 74 Associates LLC v. Marion County Assessor - Date Issued: December 3, 2019 - Property Type: 7-story 209,888 square foot public parking garage with 31,000 square feet of first floor retail consisting of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Marion County Keeps the Heat on Multifamily Property Tax Assessments

Given today’s unprecedented stress and uncertainty, multifamily property owners in Marion County, Indiana should explore all avenues that could help reduce their property tax bill. A little due diligence — and some informed...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Indiana Tax Court affirms Voluntary Dismissals of Property Tax Appeals, where Assessor had not incurrred a “Substantial Expense”

Assessor had spent little time with limited discovery prosecuting case - Name: Marion County Assessor v. Stutz Business Center, LLC - Date Issued: August 30, 2019 - Property Type: Vacant land - Assessment Years:...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Indiana Tax Court “cannot ignore the parties’ and the Indiana Board’s misapprehension of the law” – applies 1% tax cap to...

Name: Purdom v. Knox County Assessor, Knox County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals, and Indiana Board of Tax Review - Date Issued: Feb. 11, 2020 - Property Type: Single-family residence - Assessment Date:...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Allegheny County Property Tax Appeal Season Resumes

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In Allegheny County, only two things are certain in life: death and property tax assessment appeals. Every year, County property owners have the opportunity to file an assessment appeal, and as always, an appeal may provide...more

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Evidence of Construction Costs and Comparable Assessments Insufficient to Challenge Indiana Homeowner’s Property Tax Value

In Guthrie v. Clark County Assessor (August 13, 2019), Taxpayer challenged the 2018 assessment of her home, pole barn and other improvements before the Indiana Board of Tax Review....more

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