Because 2020 was a historically difficult year, Hennepin County board commissioners voted to approve a zero percent tax levy increase for this year’s budget. This year, the board has approved a 3.5 percent increase in the property tax levy to pay for $900 million of...
Richard Nixon was president, Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World” was the most popular song and “Billy Jack” was the biggest grossing movie of the year. While 1971 might not have been the political and cultural apex of American society, it was a year with positive...
Frequent readers of our Minnesota Commercial Property Tax Appeals Blog will recall a recent post on the Ramsey County Assessor’s Report 2021. Assessor Luis Rosario noted that the future of St. Paul’s office market is unclear, even though similar markets around the...
There's a mix of good news and bad news for commercial property owners in the Ramsey County Assessor’s Report 2021. According to County Assessor Luis Rosario, the report is based on the 2021 assessment (assessed values as of January 2 of this year). Ramsey County’s...
Even before the pandemic emptied office buildings from the Twin Cities to Duluth, there was a shift underway as more and more businesses offered employees the opportunity to work from home. The rise of the tech industry was helping to redefine the American workplace –...
At Robert Hill Law, we have represented people in property tax abatements whose property tax assessments were 25% to 50% higher than their properties’ true value. That could mean that challenging your tax assessment could reduce your taxes by up to half. Whether you...
The pandemic has changed so much of American life, including the way we shop. E-commerce sales had been growing before Covid-19 forced its way into our lives – e-commerce’s share of total retail volume reached 11 percent in 2019. The pandemic accelerated the trend,...
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...