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Brusniak Turner Fine Updates 6/30/2021

Posted by John Brusniak | Jun 30, 2021 | 0 Comments

CANADA

Soaring property taxes could force more Metro Vancouver businesses to close
Daily Hive
Structural issues with British Columbia's property tax regime that existed long before COVID-19 are still putting businesses in Metro Vancouver in a ...

'It's pushing people too far': Property owners call on city council to step in over tax hikes
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Residential properties dropped seven per cent across the city. “I think that there are lots of questions being asked about the process in the city assessor's ...

ILLINOIS

County recommends state review of abandoned Springfield church paying no property taxes
newschannel20.com
SPRINGFIELD, Ill - (WICS/WRSP) — The owner of an abandoned church in Springfield hasn't paid property taxes in nearly a decade because of a ...

MAINE

Lewiston drops property tax rate after valuation increase
Lewiston Sun Journal
Lewiston drops property tax rate after valuation increase. It's the largest increase in valuation in more than a decade, due to $100 million in value tied to ...

NEW YORK

New York City's Pandemic Property Tax Problems Persist | REBusinessOnline
REBusinessOnline
City government has squeezed increasing sums of property taxes from its real estate stock in each of the past 25 years, but the pandemic is changing ...

OHIO

Cleveland Heights OKs 50% tax break for funeral home, still nearly doubling money to school district
cleveland.com
Under the CRA agreement, the funeral home would continue to pay over $48,000 in property taxes that include the existing 11,700 square foot ...

PENNSYLVANIA

Cathedral ends bid for property tax exemption, instead looks for lower appraisal
Yahoo News 
... the city of New Castle and the New Castle Area School District — informed the ... Now we're just hoping now to get a reduction in assessed value.

RHODE ISLAND

Bill would offer up to $200M incentive for data center in RI. But who will build it?
The Providence Journal
... a bill last Friday that would allow data centers to buy equipment and construct a building without having to pay sales tax or property tax on them.

WISCONSIN

Legislation that Republicans have put on a fast track could lead to a tax break for out-of-state ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
That legislation, Assembly Bill 191, is focused on eliminating the personal property tax paid by businesses. It would save the businesses about $200 ...

About the Author

John Brusniak

John Brusniak, Jr. is the dean of Texas property tax litigation.  He was licensed to practice law in 1976,   His early career involved general litigation and appellate work in both the federal and state courts until he was handed his first property tax matter.  It arose prior to the implementatio...

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