Real Property Assessment Reduction Services
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Proposition 13
The State of California Property Tax system under Proposition 13 is different from every other State. Negotiating this system takes knowledge based upon years of experience utilizing ever changing strategies in a dynamic time. In a word, the system is difficult. Commercial Property Tax Associates (CPTA) has the experience and strategies to deal with this system.
Attorney Eric Miethke, in an article published by the California Taxpayers Association writes:
Why taxpayers hate the [California] property tax system
By Eric Miethke
Most practitioners and property tax managers share a common bond: they feel that rather than being a system of adjudicating legitimate disputes, the property tax appeals process has become a system of rubber-stamping assessor values, even when those values are arbitrarily determined.
How could practitioners and property tax managers come to this conclusion? Simply stated, because it is the correct one. The property tax appeals system is inherently unfair, and is designed to provide maximum revenue collection and de minimus due process for taxpayers.
You can read the entire article by clicking the title above. Though it is a bit dated it still rings true today. For this reason all commercial property owners and managers need to consider CPTA. Beginning over 20 years ago, in the real estate recession of the 1990’s, the principals of CPTA were able to save thousands of Clients millions of dollars at a crucial time of need. Those services continue in this present critical time of need.
California Commercial Real Property Taxes Help
CPTA offers total California Property Tax solutions to assist with commercial California property taxes. From informal appeals to representation before the County Assessment Appeals Board, CPTA will professionally handle your real property tax needs. Click the title above to read about our California real property tax services.
California Commercial Personal Property Taxes Help
If you are a California commercial property owner you probably don’t know much about 571-L’s. You likely just sign the form after it is prepared by your accountant. If you are the accountant for a commercial property owner, you fill out the 571-L for the owner and are charged with knowing the ramifications of the numbers you are reporting. But what if the numbers are incorrect? What if the numbers are reported by you and are erroneously reported as real property by the county assessor. Double taxation.
CPTA can help by auditing both the real and personal property tax statements, specifically applying this strategy as well as many others to secure the maximum reductions and refunds. Click the title above to read about our California person property tax services.