Tax Assessment
Our Tax Assessment practice is bolstered by a deep bench of seasoned attorneys. We handle tax assessment challenges involving commercial and high-end residential properties. Additionally, we litigate valuation cases related to earn-out and member/shareholder disputes.
Clients engage our Tax Assessment team because of our focus on relationships, details, and efficient problem solving. We maintain respectful and courteous relationships with assessors, town attorneys, and other officials, enabling us to quickly develop and execute on strategies for favorable outcomes. Our grasp of real estate valuation approaches, market factors, and the political and reserve landscapes that often underly the determinations made by taxing jurisdictions allow us to efficiently resolve all types of assessment challenges. We are adept at working with multiple appraisers, engineers, accountants, and market consultants. We leverage cases effectively and have a track record of winning on the merits when judicial resolutions are necessary.
The value we provide to clients includes our forecasting abilities. We keep fingers on the pulses of market trends, legislative proposals, and anticipated revaluations and equalization rate changes. This foresight not only helps our clients set course navigations and budgets with confidence but also helps us cut prospective and other deals that maximize returns.
Our Service
We provide clients with a full range of real property tax assessment and valuation services, including:
- Advising on New York’s Real Property Tax Law (RPTL)
- Article 7 Tax Assessment Challenges
- Grievance Preparation Filing
- PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) Agreements
- Working with various experts for Preliminary and Trial-Ready Appraisals
- Property Tax Exemption Applications
- Property and Business Valuation Analyses
How It Works
We serve clients in Upstate New York, including the counties of Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua, Genesee, Monroe, Allegany, Onondaga, Madison, Albany, Chemung, and Steuben. Our diverse clientele includes, but is not limited to, owners and managers of:
- Apartment Buildings
- Auto Dealerships
- Adult Homes
- Condominiums
- Entertainment Properties
- Financial Institutions
- High-End Residential Properties
- Hotels
- Manufacturing Facilities
- Medical Facilities
- Office Buildings
- Power-Generating Facilities
- Property Developers
- Recreation Properties
- Retail Plazas
- Self-Storage Facilities
- Shopping Malls
- Supermarkets
- Warehouses
Key Contacts
Team
According to our clients:
“They are a great team of bright, talented people who are incredibly knowledgeable, very customer-oriented and very good at meeting deadlines.”
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