Property Tax News Articles & Updates

Brusniak Turner Fine Updates 8/30/2019

Posted by John Brusniak | Aug 30, 2019 | 0 Comments

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Property Taxes Third Highest in US
CBIA
Connecticut has the third highest per capita property taxes in the nation. At $2847, it's twice the national average of $1518.

FLORIDA

School districts lose another round in court challenge of HB 7069
Tampa Bay Times
In the final section, the court took on the issue of whether lawmakers had created an inappropriate ad valorem tax for a state priority of charter schools.

ILLINOIS

ASSESSOR FRITZ KAEGI CELEBRATES SIGNING OF AUTOMATIC SENIOR CITIZEN PROPERTY ...
Chicago Defender
The bill, championed by Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi and Illinois House Assistant Majority Leader Fred Crespo, amends the Illinois Property Tax ...

MASSACHUSETTS

Tax exemption miffs Provincetown's part-time residents
Cape Cod Times
About 760 properties are expected to qualify for the exemption, while 3,435 properties would not, said Scott Fahle, the town's principal assessor.

NEW YORK

Editorial: Property tax relief just got more burdensome
Glens Falls Post-Star
For more than 20 years, the STAR program has worked simply and well to reduce the property tax burden on state homeowners. With STAR, a part of ...

TEXAS

Property value protest hearings harshly criticized
The Austin Bulldog
The total 2019 ARB budget was $257,250, according to the appraisal district budget adopted in August 2018. The proposed 2020 ARB budget is ...

Appraisal district says it can't speculate on tax impact of waterfront properties
Seguin Today
(Seguin) — “We don't know!” That sentence pretty much sums up all that can be said right now by the Guadalupe Appraisal District, as it works to ...

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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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