The Maricopa County Treasurer will be issuing tax bills for Tax Year 2010 later this month. In order to maintain the right to appeal your property’s 2010 full cash value, you must timely pay all 2010 taxes as they come due. The first half of your Tax Year 2010 payment is due and payable on [...]
Tim Boncoskey, the Chief Deputy to the Maricopa County Assessor, recently gave a presentation to the Phoenix Association of Realtors providing information and statistics relating to Maricopa County’s tax appeal process. The presentation is available on the Assessor’s website at: http://www.maricopa.gov/assessor/PDF/NEWS-PRESSRELEASES/PhxAsscofRealtorsPresentation.pdf.
The following information contained in Mr. Boncoskey’s presentation may be of interest to our clients: [...]
The Maricopa County Assessor’s office issued its initial 2011 valuation notices at the end of February. If you wish to file a 2011 administrative appeal on your Maricopa County real property, you must file a petition for review no later than April 13, 2010. (Please note that the filing deadlines in other Arizona counties are [...]
Appeals of property valuations soar in Maricopa County
Amid market slump, owners dispute tax assessor’s data
by Alia Beard Rau – Nov. 10, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
The Maricopa County Assessor’s Office is working its way through the largest wave of property-valuation appeals in nearly two decades as real-estate values continue to decline and owners try to [...]
We are pleased to announce that Bart Wilhoit has joined Mooney, Wright & Moore. Bart is an exceptional lawyer with significant experience in condemnation/eminent domain litigation. He will continue to represent clients in condemnation matters and also expand his practice into state and local tax issues.
We have known Bart for many years and are delighted [...]
With few exceptions, the deadline in Arizona to challenge directly in the Tax Court the 2010 valuation or classification of your property is Tuesday, December 15, 2009.
If you filed an administrative appeal with the County Assessor or the State or County Board of Equalization, then a different deadline will likely apply.
Please contact us if you [...]
Please remember that the first-half of your 2009 property taxes must be paid by November 2, 2009, to be timely. Delinquent tax payments may result in severe consequences for maintaining pending appeals and settlements, as well as the accrual of significant interest penalties and the eventual loss of the property if the taxes are not [...]
Maricopa County Assessor Keith Russell recently announced his decision to repeal the current high density grazing policy. The repeal will be effective for the 2011 tax year (date of value January 1, 2010). The Assessor’s office will be holding public meetings beginning in late September to discuss the change in the Assessor’s policy.
At the moment [...]
The Arizona Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling in favor of 162 taxpayers who owned large apartment complexes that were valued and taxed in a discriminatory manner by the Maricopa County Assessor’s Office in a case that Mooney, Wright & Moore (MWM) served as lead counsel. The case is: Aida Renta Trust, et [...]
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