By Robert A. Hill, property tax attorney and president, Robert Hill Law, Ltd. As an owner of one or more business properties, you or your team are likely watching the sales of buildings near to or adjacent to your property. I’d call that a “best practice” in business...
By Robert A. Hill, property tax attorney and president, Robert Hill Law, Ltd. Your business property has just been assessed and marketplace knowledge tells you this tax assessment just doesn’t seem right. What to do next? You need additional facts and you need them...
In a seminal decision, the Minnesota Tax Court ruled that a Menards store located in Moorhead Minnesota had been overassesed by at least 4 million dollars for a number of years. Robert Hill Law, in conjunction with Paradigm Tax Group, successfully prosecuted a...
Over three years ago, to redress their grievances in having been maliciously prosecuted as revenge for their whistleblowing activities, Lawrence and Sinuon Leiendecker (Leiendeckers) sued Asian Women United of Minnesota (AWUM), its board of directors (“BODs”) and a...
Here are 4 articles highlighted in the most recent issue of the Paradigm tax Group newsletter. Ohio Supreme Court Rules: Grain Storage Bins Are Not Taxable As Real Property An Ohio Supreme Court decision made earlier this month ruled that grain storage bins are...
The Institute, founded in 1976, is a non-profit educational association serving over 4400 members representing approximately 1450 corporations, firms, or taxpayers throughout the United States and Canada. It is the only professional organization that educates,...
Update: Robert Hill wins for Menards. “Big-box stores” have proven to be a very difficult valuation problem for many assessors over the past five years, as the temptation to assess them at estimated market values in line with smaller, income producing retail stores...
One of the more difficult problems property tax practitioners – and trial courts – face is to determine the fair market value of large industrial plants that are due to close and be torn down. Such properties rarely have much value to either their current owner(s) or...
One of the most difficult challenges property tax practitioners face is to convince a particular state tribunal that relying upon comparable sales from other states is a proper method for determining the market value of large manufacturing plants. In McNeilus Truck...
National retailers use sale-leaseback transactions to expand their businesses. In a typical sale-leaseback, a property owner sells real estate used in its business to an unrelated private investor or to an institutional investor. Simultaneously, the property is leased...