CANADA

Vancouver homeowner with $27M property wins court battle over empty home tax CBC.ca The owner of one of the most valuable properties in all of B.C. won't have to pay an empty home tax of $249,314 — at least not yet. A B.C. Supreme ...

ARIZONA

Arizona officials agree to remove assessor at center of adoption fraud scheme from office KMYU The Board of Supervisors for Arizona's largest county has unanimously agreed to uphold the suspension and push for the removal of the county ...

ARKANSAS

Poultry houses' new appraisals stick in craws Lawmakers voice dismay; assessors say update ... Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette County assessors have moved on, but lawmakers remain miffed, passing a resolution last week without dissent condemning the state Assessment ...

COLORADO

Small business owners say commercial property taxes are pushing them out of business Denverite On Friday, Helikon Gallery & Studios in Five Points closed its doors for good, facing what the owner says is a tripling of its property taxes. According to ...

ILLINOIS

Waukegan holds second vote regarding property tax levy after lawsuit challenges last vote's legality Chicago Tribune The move is a response to a lawsuit filed by Margaret Carrasco, who has repeatedly criticized Mayor Sam Cunningham's efforts to raise property taxes ...

INDIANA

Declining to reweigh the evidence, Indiana Tax Court affirms assessments of CVS store based on ... JD Supra (press release) The County Assessor had valued the property at a range of approximately $1 Million to $1.1 Million for the four contested assessment dates.

MINNESOTA

Blaine 2020 property tax levy increases by 9.5% ECM Publishers The Blaine City Council approved the 2020 property tax levy Dec. ... Huss said most of the 2020 property tax levy is allocated to the general fund in the ...

MISSOURI

Moniteau County assessor steps down, accused of misusing county money KOMU 8 CALIFORNIA - Amanda Trimble, the Moniteau County assessor, is resigning from her office amid accusations she used taxpayer money for personal ...

NEW YORK

Who the 'gentrification tax' hurts: Beware unintended consequences New York Daily News It's common, and common-sense, practice in many municipalities around the country for the assessed value — and the property tax — of a home to ...

NORTH DAKOTA

Anonymous man pays off all back taxes on Cass County's mobile homes West Fargo Pioneer When Vikki Hutchinson opened a letter from the Cass County assessor's office last week, she found a receipt for a payment she didn't make, but soon ...

TEXAS

State's Agricultural Tax Exemptions Benefit Wealthy at Education's Expense, Critics Say Reform Austin For many residents of property-tax happy Texas, a collective concern about next year's tax bill from local governments constantly percolates. But not ...

WEST VIRGINIA

Berkeley County approves settlement to resolve couple's $46K overpayment in property taxes Herald-Mail Media The mistake wasn't discovered until the Rowes submitted a homestead exemption application to the Berkeley County assessor's office in September ...