Category: VAB Due Process For Taxpayers
Covering The Territory
CPS often is asked where in Florida we have filed appeals. Here's a partial list: Alachua Bay Brevard Broward Charlotte Citrus Collier Columbia Duval Flagler Franklin Hamilton Hernando Highlands Hillsborough Indian River Lake Lee Leon Manatee Marion Martin Miami-Dade Monroe Orange Osceola Palm Beach Pasco Pinellas Polk St. Johns St. Lucie Sarasota Seminole Volusia Washington
Problems That Arise At TRIM Time – and Solutions
First - Scribner's errors can occur given the long strings of numbers involved in parcel identification numbers. The solution is to file Value Adjustment Board petitions early enough to discover inadvertent errors in those numbers, and to correct them, well ...
Florida Value Adjustment Board Deadlines for 2013
Not all jurisdictions publish Value Adjustment Board deadlines and values in advance of mailing TRIM notices. However some do, and here are a few of the dates - although WE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY OF THIS INFORMATON. It ...
DOR Proposes To Change Time Calculations
A notice, just sent out by the Florida Department of Revenue, fixes a problem of many years. Although almost every other form of deadlines for submissions of tax-related forms extends to the next business day, up to now BY RULE ...
From Miami to Tallahassee, and places in between, there was an uproar over the 2013 Value Adjustment Board Training draft. More than 100 pages had been deleted. There was no redlined copy so everyone could follow what changed and what ...
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 ...