One-third of assessment appeals succeed

STAMFORD Connecticut - More than a third of the property owners who appealed their assessments from the 2007 revaluation were successful.

Of 794 cases, the Board of Assessment Appeals reduced tax assessments on 289 properties, or 36 percent, lowering the $23.9 billion Grand List by $14 million.

If you choose to appeal, the proof is on the taxpayer to prove his case.

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The point is that property tax assessments are flawed and there is a good chance that you may have a case for property tax appeal.

In some cases, property tax increases followed run away price increases fueled by speculation. Municipalities reap more taxes and usually find no problem spending their new found wealth. Few municipalities feel any responsibility to cut expenses for their taxpayers.

One never hears of outsourcing for less expensive police and other municipal services. State government unions continue their muzzle hold on politicians spreading their entitlement virus.

Municipalities and schools borrow and pay later as budgets get passed ignoring voter approval. The voter gets little meaningful to vote for come election time. The only property tax relief most homeowners will get is if they appeal their home’s property taxes.

One remedy would be to join or help a grass roots campaign to put tax cutting solutions on the ballot or voting in true taxpayer friendly politicians. Some state are considering abolishing property taxes all together in favor of a sales tax to raise revenues. Now that would be a change.

We offer a property tax manual that will take you step by step into the process of appealing your homes assessed value. The experts say that there is a 50/50 chance that there are errors in your assessment charges. It’s worth your time to look into if you qualify for an appeal.

71 billion dollars of appraised real estate value is going to be wiped off the tax assessors books according to the Joint Economic Committee report. What does that mean to us as taxpayers? The states will lose $917 million in property tax revenue and we all know they will not cut jobs or retreat for the most part in their mindless spending spree. Who do you know who is in political office that would live up to the scrutiny of Suze Orman, the internationally acclaimed personal finance expert. She probably would have all government workers driving in OLD cars for starters.
Her motto seems to be, “if you don’t have it, don’t spend it.” Living on a sensible budget is what most working class people practice. Politicians, on the other hand, have betrayed the public trust by not taking on government unions that grant early retirement and fat fringe benefits. When the public at large has to work 45 years before retirement, government workers work only 20 years and they are eligible. The shift of wealth in this country has gone from entrepreneurs to federal and state workers and contractors.

Political cowardice and the politician pushing programs to the voters group think, “if its from the government its free “ have caused the shift. Politicians are afraid to hire outside their non-union mafia. Trade unions as opposed to government unions should act as the model union. Workers are hired on an as needed baises and get paid only if they work. Trade union employees get holidays off but they don’t get paid for them. If the employer is dissatisfied with the worker, he or she is fired. There is no such thing as tenure.

Its free alright after property tax bite gets increased or sales tax increase pays for it. All we can do is forgive the enemy politicians against the taxpayer, but never forget their names in the polling booth.

Property taxes basically punish people who succeed in the system you manage to buy a home and reward those who rent, have many children in public school. Consider:

1) Even if you don’t have children or the kids have left the nest you still have to pay the same amount of property taxes.

2) Even if you live in a home say worth $500,000 and property taxes of $7,000 whose value is declining (due to the sub-prime real estate fiasco we currently find ourselves in) you have to pay a proportional amount of taxes to support the government. Those who rent don’t.

It is fundamentally wrong and outrageous that to tax somebody’s right to own property. Should you pay taxes every year on the clothes you wear, the clothes in your wardrobe, your coffee maker stove, refrigerator … every year? It does not make sense.

So where will the money come from? Sales tax. But the problem with that is that tax and spend politicians invisible hand will raise the budget a little this year and the next and the next … and most people wont’ even notice the hikes let alone protest.

Taxes are dangerous and seductive in any form without strong disciplinary rules. Taxes need to be tied to a measurable gauge and have a sticks and carrots rider. For instance, taxes could be assessed on

1) A percentage of a region’s total net wage income.
2) Reducing sales taxes from a set amount tied to politicians vacation days. Starting vacation days to government employees should be severely limited thereby putting pressure on those in charge. Do they want to look at sad faces on their staff because they can’t reel in spending? This has a double edge strategy. When politicians are not in office they can’t spend money. This is a win/win for taxpayers.

House speaker Glenn Richardson, Georgia, is traveling throughout the state advocating abolishing all property taxes. He makes the point that while incomes rose in Georgia in the 1990-2005 era by 146.8 percent, property tax revenue rose 176.8 percent. He points out that property taxes are rising faster than people’s ability to pay them. That is happening throughout this nation.

We need to reel in and punish politicians who propose bigger and better without the means to finance those plans. We need to stop punishing those who own homes.

Taxes on a home should only be paid when:
1) a home is bought
2) a home is sold

The question of how to make up lost revenues would fall on the state and they could remit to local governments their share, or there could be a local optional sales tax. In either case, capping the taxes is essential to promote spending discipline, tax shift or no tax shift.

Property taxes are getting out of control largely due to over generous compensations to "public" servant. These public servants are increasingly viewed as victimizing the public purse. Work 20-years and retire on the public dole, over-the-top benefits for services provided, pricey entitlement packages protected by union lawyers and state funded bonds are killing the public. Is everyone in on the take?

Public servants should have equivalent benefits similar to a Home Depot, Sears or Wal-Mart employee. That's kinda the average wage and benefits package available to average folks out there.

They (the government employees) need to work 45 years like the rest of average working taxpayers before they're eligible to retire. Their benefits package should match what is normal to community averages; not plush costly taxpayer paid perks

Construction workers face more danger and have more health risk and job insecurity than most cops, firefighters or any of these royalty treated public servants. Public servants are increasingly seen as public leeches when they are treated like royal princes and princesses.

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You have an opportunity to protest your homes market value. You do not have an opportunity to protest your property taxes when doing a property tax appeal. Protesting your property taxes is a political event.

Property tax protestors can either petition their government to put the issue on the ballot or raise the sales taxes in order to lower the property tax. Either that or petition their government to cut overpriced, unregulated excess government services. Do your really need so many cops in your town? Administrators and staff? Special school facilities, new tracks, programs? New cars and trucks for all those department heads or facility services? Full service contract instead of per diem employment when needed?