CANADA

Vancouver's empty-home tax is returning inventory to rental market The Globe and Mail Jessica Lee, co-founder of new property management firm Bodewell, says Vancouver's empty-homes taxhas brought more inventory to the city's ...

CALIFORNIA

California Is Headed Toward a Titanic Battle Over Raising Property Taxes New York Magazine Prop 13 capped property taxes at one percent of assessed value at time of acquisition, and limited upward reassessments of property values to 2 ...

MONTANA

Officials pause decision on tax break for Montana wind farm Greenwich Time The Billings Gazette reports Rosebud County commissioners voted Tuesday to table the decision on whether to grant 50% tax abatement for the ...

NEW JERSEY

Law Eases Burden of NJ Towns Facing Major Refunds for Successful TaxAppeals NJ Spotlight Garden State municipalities will now have up to three years to refund local commercial property owners for tax judgments over $100,000.

NEW YORK

Decadeslong tax breaks from IDAs spark controversy Newsday Developer Steel Equities was awarded a 40-year property tax abatement by the Nassau IDA to rehabilitate the polluted Grumman factory site in ...

PENNSYLVANIA

Lawmakers are talking about eliminating school property taxes. Again. LancasterOnline Pennsylvania's “age-old” struggle to eliminate school property taxes and shift that tax burden elsewhere is back on Harrisburg's radar. Whether ...

TEXAS

Dallas City Council approves $9.35 million in incentives for Uber expansion Dallas Business Journal Dallas County is proposing a 10-year, 50 percent tax abatement on real property and 90 percent tax abatement on business personal property for the ...