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Brusniak Turner Fine Updates 7/9/2021

Posted by John Brusniak | Jul 09, 2021 | 0 Comments

FLORIDA

Pensacola property values jumped by up to 8% last year. What that means for your tax bill 
Pensacola News Journal 
The property appraisers for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties sent off the tax rolls to the Florida Department of Revenue for audit late last month, ...
 
DeSantis promises property tax aid after collapse 
WWSB 
(News Service of Florida) --- Property tax relief is in the works after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Gov ...

IDAHO

LOCAL BRIEFS
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
The Whitman County Commissioners voted to appoint Chief Deputy Treasurer Wraylee Flodin as the county's new assessor Tuesday. Flodin replaces ...

ILLINOIS

Predicted population loss in Freeport could mean the loss of Home Rule, resulting in higher ... 
WREX-TV 
"Our property tax levy is only $2.4 million so you can imagine if you think your property taxes are high now and we have to make up that lost revenue, ...

LOUISIANA

Louisiana council clears tax break for PBF Energy's 'saviour' refinery project 
Reuters 
HOUSTON, July 7 (Reuters) - A Louisiana parish council has approved a property tax exemption for a project that a company official said could be the ...

MAINE

Portland man sees his property tax bill double after citywide revaluation 
Bangor Daily News 
“The new monthly tax rate is more than my mortgage payment was when I bought the house,” Summers said. He pays property taxes twice a year and ...

MARYLAND

Colleagues Reject Councilman's Tax Incentive Proposal 
The Dispatch 
“It's very simple,” Councilman Joe Holloway said. “Any tax exemptions we give to anyone we reduce the property tax rate the next budget session by the ...

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor's mayor seeks 1-mill tax increase to fight climate change 
The Detroit News 
... members on Tuesday evening, indicating the 1-mill property tax increase plan would raise between $130 to $150 million over the life of the millage.

NEBRASKA

Ted Turner to give land to nonprofit but keep paying taxes
ABC News 
Ted Turner to give land to nonprofit but keep paying taxes. Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he ...

TEXAS

Governor Abbott Includes Property Tax Relief in the Upcoming Special Session Agenda 
EIN News 
The Texas property tax is the most existential threat to our culture of rugged individualism and free market economics. Instead of saving and acquiring ...

Report: Dallas hotels are still experiencing recession conditions
The Dallas Morning News
Despite an uptick in travel unseen since the onset of the pandemic, hotels in the Dallas area are still experiencing recession-like business conditions...

WISCONSIN

Tony Evers vetoes bills eliminating personal property tax, creating legislative human resources office 
Madison.com 
Evers said the proposed bill could potentially apply to the state's ad valorem utility taxes, which are based on property values of utility property.

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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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