As readers of our Minnesota Commercial Property Tax Appeals Blog know, we have repeatedly detailed the fight waged by businesses for fair and accurate assessments of commercial properties. As part of our coverage of the topic, we have examined the efforts of big-box...
Robert Hill Law recently published a white paper on the process of seeking property tax abatements in Colorado. This SlideShare provides a quick dip into the topic. Robert Hill Law: You can't afford not to challenge your property taxes in Colorado from The Law Buzz...
Many regular Minnesota Commercial Property Tax Appeals Blog readers are familiar with the Triple Five Group. The Edmonton, Canada-based retail development company owns the Mall of America in Bloomington and the West Edmonton Mall in Canada. Back in the pre-pandemic...
There are reliable methods to determine the value of Minnesota Twins baseball players. Divide the number of hits a player has by the number of at-bats, and you find his batting average. Similar calculations can determine a hitter’s slugging percentage and a pitcher’s...
Filing a residential or commercial property tax abatement in Colorado is relatively straightforward. Unlike in other states, Colorado’s property owners can challenge their property value assessments even after they have paid the taxes and for two years in the past. So...
Regular readers of our Minnesota Commercial Property Tax Appeals Blog will recall a recent post about Northland commercial property taxes. A number of commercial property owners and their attorneys have filed petitions in tax court contesting St. Louis County...
Commercial property owners in the southern half of Minnesota will understand sentiments recently expressed by the head of a Northland property management firm who said the “residential (housing) market is booming . . . but the absolute inverse has occurred for...
Regular readers of our commercial property tax appeal blog will likely recall a previous post about the recent report by the Commercial Real Estate Development Association of Minnesota (aka NAIOP). The report says Minnesota’s “effective tax rate on commercial property...
There are only four states using statewide property taxes to fund their state general fund appropriations – Minnesota is one of them. There’s only one state that taxes commercial and industrial properties exclusively to support the fund – that one state is, of course,...
Not long ago, Minnesota was ranked #2 by U.S. News in their ranking of best states in 2021. We ranked high on infrastructure, opportunity, natural environment and economy, though to be fair, the publication did not rank winter weather when it assessed states....
