How to Lower Your Property Taxes: A Step-By-Step Guide to Challenging Your Tax Bills

Offers step-by-step instructions for appealing one's property tax, explains how the taxes are levied, and identifies reasons for making an appeal

Tax consultant Koenig makes sure that the reader is aware of the fact that property taxes rise faster than any other taxes in the United States. He provides a comprehensive overview of his subject detailing how assessments are made and the procedure the taxpayer must take to appeal an assessment. As this appeals procedure is the major thrust of this book, Koenig emphasizes the need for research into such matters as the way taxes are levied; the determination of property value; the correctness of the assessment based on the tax rate; rights, if any, to exemptions; and tax records. He provides how-to instructions for undertaking this research and, when completed, for packaging and presenting the appeal. A useful glossary and list of readings is also included in this helpful and readable primer on the subject.
- Steven Mayover, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
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