Should you appeal your tax bill?
(Chicago Sun Times) — You just opened your Cook County property tax bill and the amount feels like a punch to the forehead. What do you do? 1. Pay the bill. The deadline is Dec. 13, and even if you...
View ArticleCounty Property Tax Overhaul Urged
(Chicago Sun Times) — Cook County’s mind-boggling property tax system should be simplified and made fairer, a taxpayer watchdog group argued in a report to be issued today. The nonpartisan Civic...
View ArticleBig Property-Tax Increases on Horizon
(Wall Street Journal) — Co-op and condo owners will pay sharply higher property taxes next year, under a preliminary assessment roll released Friday by the Bloomberg administration. The city attributed...
View ArticleProperty Tax Return Still Useful
(AJC) — As the Great Recession decimated real estate values, tens of thousands of metro Atlanta homeowners discovered a seldom-used document — the real property tax return — to help them combat county...
View ArticleNY Business Groups Pushing for Property Tax Cap
(AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new system for trying to attract jobs upstate and his plan to cap the growth of some of the nation’s highest property taxes face their first challenge Monday by...
View ArticleNY Laws That Would Help Business
(Crain’s) — Business groups typically spend the first half of the year in Albany fending off tax increases, state borrowing schemes and expanded regulation. This year they expect to be on offense,...
View ArticleSchool District Considers Property Tax Increase, and Layoffs if It Is Rejected
(Chicago News Cooperative) — The Chicago Public Schools are considering an $80 million property-tax increase as they try to close a budget deficit now estimated at $820 million, and they may have to...
View Article7 Ways to Take an Ax to Property Tax
(Kiplinger) — If there’s a silver lining to falling home prices, it’s that your property tax bill will shrink, too, right? Well, maybe. In fact, more than half of all U.S. properties may be assessed at...
View ArticleAldermen Not Warming up to Proposed School Property Tax Hike
(Chicago Tribune) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration tried Monday to convince aldermen to swallow a $150 million property tax increase for the Chicago Public Schools, but it was a tough sell....
View ArticleMayor Defends $150M Property Tax Hike to Fund Chicago Schools
(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he doesn’t relish the idea of raising property taxes by a record $150 million, but the Chicago Public Schools have made $400 million in cuts and...
View ArticleSchool Board Passes Property Tax Increase, CPS Pushes Longer Day
(Chicago Sun Times) — Chicago School Board members Wednesday unanimously approved a budget packing a $150 million property tax increase as school officials offered elementary teachers raises totaling...
View ArticleMd. to Hold the Line on State Property Taxes
Marylanders will pay the same state property tax rate next year as they have for the past four years, the Board of Public Works voted Wednesday, but keeping rates low could cost the state $20 million...
View ArticleTax Group Takes on Fulton County
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — A taxpayers group is suing the Fulton County Board of Assessors and asking the court to freeze the property assessments at their 2009 level because it says is...
View ArticleDaley Says No Property Tax Hike
(AP) — Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley says he won’t propose increasing property taxes in next year’s budget. Daley made that pledge Tuesday during an appearance before the City Club of Chicago. Daley...
View ArticleAssessor’s Race Centers on Balance of Tax Burden
(NYT) — Homeowners have been far less successful than businesses in winning appeals for lower property tax assessments, a Chicago News Cooperative analysis shows — a discrepancy that strikes at a key...
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