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Brusniak Turner Fine Updates 9/22/2021

Posted by John Brusniak | Feb 22, 2021 | 0 Comments

NATIONAL

Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) 
He hoped to build a home in the growing Bellevue neighborhood. But he fell on hard times and struggled to pay the taxes on the land in 2011 and 2012.
 
Rents are skyrocketing in many of the small cities people fled to in 2020
Business Insider  
In affordable cities near major tech hubs that would typically attract homebuyers, rent prices have increased by double-digit percentages over the past year.

IDAHO

Lewiston Morning Tribune 
Under current law, local governments can increase their property tax budgets by as much as 3 percent each year, plus new construction and annexation.

NEW YORK

Rosendale lowers Iron Mountain's tax assessment by $1M in settlement 
Hudson Valley One 
... Inc., against the Town of Rosendale, its assessor and Board of Assessment Review under Article 7 of New York State's Real Property Tax Law.
 
Exclusive: New York City tax agency subpoenaed in Trump criminal probe
Reuters  
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has subpoenaed a New York City property tax agency as part of a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's company...
 
So many New Yorkers are selling their homes that property prices could keep falling for the rest of the year
Business Insider  
Median home prices in New York City fell at the fastest annual rate on record in January, dropping 6.2% in Manhattan and 5.4% in Brooklyn...

WASHINGTON

Property tax bill prompts uproar 
Peninsula Daily News 
There, taxes on a $250,000 house were $2,619 in 2020 and $2,345 in 2021, Marchi said, due mostly to a school district bond that expired. 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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