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Industrial Properties Get Their Due
Jun 1, 2008
For over a decade, tax authorities in many jurisdictions have recognized that intangible assets and rights must be removed when assessing certain types...
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Improper Use of Cap Rates Proves Costly
Apr 1, 2008
Developing a capitalization rate for tax assessment purposes seems like a relatively simple task. Using the market extraction approach, the one most commonly...
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When the Cost Approach Proves Unfair
Feb 1, 2008
Assessors typically value industrial and commercial properties using a cost approach that starts with land value, adds the cost of property improvements...
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Fair Taxation Often Eludes Build-to-Suits
Sep 1, 2007
In a build-to-suit transaction, the value of the property to the user who had it built is greater than the value that property holds for the next user....
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The High Cost of Bad Tax Forecasting
Jul 1, 2007
Corporate accounting and tax departments often have difficulty producing reliable property-tax expense forecasts for budgeting purposes. Inaccurate forecasts can reduce corporate net incomes by millions of dollars....
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Hotel Owners Can Avoid Property Tax Surprises
Jan 1, 2007
The feverish pace of hotel acquisitions over the past two years has driven sale prices to record levels. Assessors tend to use high sale prices as the basis for property tax calculations. ...
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Avoid Pitfalls of the Cost Approach
Dec 1, 2006
The valuation of manufacturing plants for property tax purposes presents a challenge for both owners and property tax officials. ...
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Aging Industrial Plants Worthy of a Tax Discount
Sep 1, 2006
Many automobile assembly plants have been closed and sold for a far different use than vehicle assembly. This phenomenon provides owners of all types of industrial property with lessons on how to protect themselves from unfair property taxation...
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Hurricane Aftermath
Jul 1, 2006
When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in August and September of 2005 long after the Jan. 1 assessment date for setting values for Louisiana property...
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New Rules on Intangibles
May 1, 2006
Many state statutes recognize that a recent sale represents the best evidence of market value for real estate tax assessment purposes. Given the record...
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Taking Their Cue From Hotel Owners
Jan 1, 2006
Considerable debate swirls around the valuation of shopping centers for property taxation. The debate focuses on whether shopping centers contain business...
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How to Avoid High Property Taxes
Aug 1, 2005
The foundation for a property tax appeal rests on an analysis of the property's value for real estate tax purposes. The valuation analysis can be based...
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Assessors Exploit Their Advantage
Feb 1, 2005
In the late 1970s, property owners were on an equal footing with the local assessor. In those days it was almost impossible to obtain important information...
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How Assessors Unfairly Penalize REITs
Jun 1, 2004
Taxing authorities all too quickly use the sale prices paid by real estate investment trusts (REITs) as the basis for taxable value of investment-grade,...
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Challenging the Tax Man
May 1, 2003
For property tax purposes, the huge capital investment made in large single-tenant, corporate campuses and headquarters buildings 1 million sq. ft. or...
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Knowing When To Appeal a Tax Bill
Feb 1, 2003
Many owners ask, Should I file a property tax appeal? If your property is not valued by the tax authorities at its market value, the answer is definitely...
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It Pays to Challenge the Tax Assessor
Aug 1, 2002
IN TODAY'S TOPSY-TURVY economy, many property categories have suffered substantial declines in value. For owners, there are few places where they can...
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