Category: VAB Due Process For Taxpayers
The Value Adjustment Boards (VABs) throughout the State represent examples after examples of non-compliance with governing laws. And, nothing is done about it so the result is about 300,000 petitioners, each year, are or face being cheated - by their own government. Rooted ...
Value Adjustment Board Audits
The last time the Auditor General did an audit of 14 Florida Value Adjustment Boards. That initial report of Findings and Recommendations led to significant changes in State laws - adding due process provisions intended to protect taxpayers who appeal ...
A comment from ...commercial office space ... (in India!) illustrates perspective. When looking at commercial properties purely as an investment rather than as a partial-use property for business owners, the most important factor is supply and demand. We agree. Supply and demand ...
Florida Property Tax Activities
Lots of activity in Florida regarding property tax policies. Local assessors are completing tax rolls for submission to the Department of Revenue. Many jurisdictions have sent their data to the State which is very busy reviewing information. DOR has until the ...
We won!
The appeal was an income-producing retail property. The location was on an island, although upscale, population was limited and traffic was local. And, there were no comparable sales of land or improved properties. Although the assessor's documents included some sales, they ...
Big Step Forward For Florida Taxpayers
For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the Florida Department of Revenue filed a brief on behalf of a Florida taxpayer. There is a Homestead Exemption case before the Supreme Court. DOR agrees with the legal positions ...
Troubling new law affects taxpayers …
In Jacksonville, you can hear Duval County VAB petitioner after VAB petitioner during the VAB meeting for 2011 on the video at http://www.coj.net/departments/regulatory-boards-and-commissions/value-adjustment-board/meeting-minutes---video.aspx. In Palm Beach, the Property Appraiser just filed suit against that VAB, claiming unlawful conduct based upon the ...
If you have a real estate license or are an appraiser licensed in Florida, state statutes governing your conduct are in Chapter 475. And Chapter 475 has a definition of real property which is applicable to your practice. BUT, if ...
Insights Into The Litigation Against DOR
First - it's important to remember that State laws govern property taxes. So what the laws are in Nevada, or Michigan, or New York, in fact everywhere, are not the same as the laws in Florida. Second - so what's just ...
The Other DOR Victory
CRAPO v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE ED CRAPO, AS PROPERTY APPRAISER OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA, ERVIN A. HIGGS, FORMER PROPERTY APPRAISER OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, NOW KARL BORGLUM, AS PROPERTY APPRAISER OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, and TIMOTHY "PETE" SMITH, AS PROPERTY APPRAISER ...