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Brusniak Turner Fine Updates 9/23/2020

Posted by John Brusniak | Sep 23, 2020 | 0 Comments

ARKANSAS

Collector, assessor offices closed due to COVID-19 outbreak
KAIT
County Tax Collector Paul Womack announced that an outbreak of COVID-19 in the tax collector's and assessor's offices has forced them to lock the ...

CALIFORNIA

Walters: Forty-two years later, another California property tax battle
San mateo county times
Walters: Forty-two years later, another California property tax battle. Proposition 15 is a proxy battle over whether Proposition 13 is still an untouchable ...

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

DC Council approves major tax break for Howard University as it launches plan for new hospital
Washington Post
A $225 million tax abatement for Howard University sailed through the D.C. Council on Tuesday, a day after an ethics probe revealed how the ...

GEORGIA

Atlanta council approves resolution telling Fulton authority not to grant tax breaks within city
Reporter Newspapers
“Tax abatements should be used to support projects committing to deeply affordable housing and projects in underserved neighborhoods in need of ...

IDAHO

Growing Pains: Why Property Taxes In Boise Are So Complex
Boise State Public Radio
Erin Brady is the Appraisal Division Supervisor at the Ada County Assessor's Office. She looks at pictures of your house and can go curb-side to see if ...

Growing Pains: How Rising Property Taxes Are Pricing Some In Boise Out Of Their Homes
Boise State Public Radio
Remember Erin Brady, who appraises houses at the Ada County Assessor's Office? She's a homeowner, and is also feeling the squeeze when it ...

LOUISIANA

Louisiana's oil lobby makes strange bedfellow with tax assessors on property tax amendment
The Daily Advertiser
Louisiana's oil lobby and tax assessors are united in support of a Nov. 3 constitutional amendment to change how oil and gas wells are taxed, in an ...

MICHIGAN

Paper mill causing rotten stink gets tax break approval with conditions
mlive.com
The commission approved an abatement for the $600 million Graphic Packaging International expansion at 1500 N. Pitcher Street after deliberating ...

MISSOURI

Bed Bath & Beyond will close 63 stores, including a store in Kansas City's Northland
Kansas City Business Journal
According to the Clay County assessor's website, the store is on a 2.09-acre property that is owned by Liberty Wilshire Plaza II LP and has an ...

NEW YORK

New York Appellate Court Decision Stops Short of Settling Solar Property Tax Issues
JD Supra
Bd. of Assessment Review and Shana Jo Hilton, as Assessor of the Town of Seneca, New York, 186 A.D.3d 990 (4th Dep't 2020), a case in which ...

About the Author

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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