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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

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Colorado Property Tax Appeals, Part 2

Property taxes play a crucial role in supporting our local communities. The revenue generated from property taxes goes directly toward funding public schools, county governments, special districts, municipal governments, and...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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

New Indiana Statute Opens Door to Lower Property Tax Assessments for Apartments in 2024

Indiana apartment owners and operators enter 2024 with new opportunities to lower their real property tax assessments. Under an updated law effective this year, Ind. Code § 6-1.1-4-39 (Section 39), for property tax assessment...more

Pullman & Comley - For What It May Be Worth

Board of Assessment Appeals – Filing Deadline Resolved

As readers of this blog probably know, a property tax appeal is initiated by filing a petition with a municipality’s Board of Assessment Appeals.  Typically, the appeal must be filed with the Board no later than February 20. ...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Tax Appeal Filing Deadline Approaching: Review Your Philadelphia Property Tax Assessment

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If you are the owner of a commercial, industrial, retail, office, residential or other property in Philadelphia, now is the time to review the tax assessment for your property against its current market value. Today’s economy...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

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

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Could A Tax Assessment Appeal Save You Money? If so, you Must Act Now!

The system of real estate taxation in Pennsylvania is quite complex, resulting in many owners of commercial, industrial, or residential properties paying more than their “fair share” of real estate taxes. ...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Splits Over Tax Appeals

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Summary - The recent 3 – 3 split by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in GM Berkshire Hills LLC v Berks County Board of Assessment and Wilson School District leaves in place a school district’s ability to target recently sold...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

Pierce Atwood LLP

Now is the Time to Appeal Excessive 2022 Rhode Island Commercial Property Tax Assessment

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January 31, 2023 is the first of several deadlines that must be met in order to appeal your excessive property tax assessment. If you miss it, you will be foreclosed from bringing an appeal, or even effectively arguing that...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

What Businesses Need to Know About the 2023 Mecklenburg County Tax Revaluation

Businesses that own real estate in Mecklenburg County should be on the lookout for an increase in their tax bills next year. Real estate is often a company’s most expensive asset, and annual property taxes can be a hefty sum....more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Upcoming 2022 Municipal Revaluations in Connecticut

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Connecticut municipalities are scheduled to conduct real property revaluations effective October 1, 2022. You may find the complete list of Connecticut municipalities conducting October 1, 2022 revaluations on the OPM website...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Time to Act If You Want to Challenge Philly’s New Property Values

​​​​​​​If you own property in Philadelphia, you should have received a notice from the Office of Property Assessment (OPA) by now informing you of the new assessed value for your property. If you have not received the notice...more

Pullman & Comley - For What It May Be Worth

What, Exactly, Is the “Three-Year Average Rule” in Massachusetts?

In most cases, in order to bring a tax appeal to the Appellate Tax Board in Massachusetts, taxpayers must have paid each tax installment for the relevant Fiscal Year in full, by the due date, and without incurring interest....more

Pullman & Comley - For What It May Be Worth

Lay Testimony in Property Tax Appeals

“Because a tax appeal is heard de novo [Latin “anew”], a trial court judge is privileged to adopt whatever testimony he reasonably believes to be credible.”  Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Board of Tax Review, 241 Conn. 749, 755-56,...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Ohio Significantly Changes Real Property Tax Valuation Procedures, Curtailing Local Governments’ Abilities To Initiate, Appeal,...

A new Ohio law substantially changes the landscape for real property tax valuation challenges in the state. In general, it substantially curtails school districts’ rights to initiate and appeal property tax valuation...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Challenging Real Property Valuation under Ohio’s Property Tax Complaint Procedure and Ohio Revised Code § 5715.19

Do you suspect your Ohio real estate may have been incorrectly valued? If so, you have the right to challenge this value under Ohio Revised Code § 5715.19. Per this statute, property values are challenged one year in...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Twelve Days of Property Tax Protections for Indiana Taxpayers – Day No. 4: Appraisals Not Required by Law to Win a Case

Appraisals can be costly to prepare, in terms of dollars spent and time invested. Taxpayers would be at a disadvantage if they were compelled in every case to pay for appraisals to support claims of excessive assessments....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Twelve Days of Property Tax Protections for Indiana Taxpayers – Day No. 1: The 5% Burden Shifting Rule

As we dive into the 2021 holiday season, I wanted to reflect over the next few weeks on a dozen (or so) gifts that have been given to Hoosier taxpayers by the Indiana General Assembly to protect them from excessive, unfair...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

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

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Illinois General Assembly Approves Refund Recapture Levy for Certain Property Tax Refunds

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Yesterday  the Illinois General Assembly passed Senate Bill 508 (SB 508).    SB 508 creates a new Section 18-233 in the Property Tax Code amending the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL) to allow taxing districts to...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Don’t Get Overtaxed: A Guide to Colorado Property Taxes and Appeals in 2021

The pandemic has upended industries across the globe. And while federal and state governmental programs have generously provided aid to certain individuals and corporate entities, such aid currently does not relieve taxpayers...more

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