INTERNATIONAL

Armenia property tax reform raises gentrification fears Reuters July 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A property tax rise in Armenia risks forcing elderly people from homes they have lived in since the Soviet era ...

NATIONAL

Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows Washington Post To expose the structural and historical factors behind these discriminatory property tax assessments, the economists analyzed more than a decade of tax ...

ARIZONA

Maricopa Assessor Caught Taking Credit For Staff's Work Arizona Daily Independent While it may not be unusual for the company boss to take credit for the work of those that work for him, newly appointed Maricopa County Assessor ...

ARKANSAS

19 counties' reappraisals must proceed, state says Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Washington County property values will certainly show an increase since the last reappraisal in 2015, said Assessor Russell Hill. He estimates an ...

CALIFORNIA

Will Covid-19's impact on your business give you a property tax break this fall? Silicon Valley Business Journal FILE -- Santa Clara County assessor Larry Stone says commercial property values have dropped since the start of the Covid-19 recession, but ...

FLORIDA

Orange County property appraiser asks court to reconsider ruling that could save Disney and other ... Orlando Sentinel Singh's office on Thursday asked the Fifth District Court of Appeal to hold another hearing in a years-long legal battle with Disney over the assessment of ...

ILLINOIS

Why local school districts are lining up against Fritz Kaegi  Crain's Chicago Business  Many commercial landlords say the Cook County Assessor has inflated the value of their properties. Worried that they'll be on the hook for big tax ...

MAINE

Scarborough settles abatement over Oak Hill Plaza, business properties  Press Herald  SCARBOROUGH—The town of Scarborough has agreed to settle and pay a $125,000 abatement to a collection of companies, including Oak Hill ...

TEXAS

Denton County adopts exemption for tax relief Star Local Media “It's something that would be good, particularly because everybody has heard complaints about the appraisal district,” Coleman said. “And this is a ...