About the firm
A property tax firm built from both sides of the table
Comprehensive Property Tax LLC is a property tax consulting and advisory firm specializing in all aspects of property tax services, and committed to quality client service and superior results. Our team of experienced, multi-disciplined professionals is made up of former Big 4 consultants, former assessors, CPAs, and property tax specialists.
What we do, and why it is structured this way
Property tax is two different disciplines wearing one name. Real property work is a valuation argument — you are contesting an opinion, in front of people, with evidence. Personal property work is a compliance and classification discipline — you are getting the return right before it is filed, because almost nobody will correct it in your favor afterward.
Most firms are good at one and treat the other as an add-on. We built the team to carry both, because clients do not experience them separately. A manufacturer with a plant in six states has an assessment problem and a filing problem in the same building, and the fixed asset register sits underneath both of them.
How engagements usually start
Almost always with a review rather than a contract. Send the assessment notices, the most recently filed personal property statements, or the fixed asset register. We tell you where the exposure is, where the opportunity is, what pursuing it would cost, and what it is realistically worth. If the answer is that your assessments are defensible and your returns are clean, that is the answer you get.
Engagements grow from there. A compliance client finds ghost assets and adds a fixed asset inventory. An appeal client turns out to have uncertified pollution control equipment. A company planning an expansion learns that the abatement application has to be filed before ground is broken. The services are separable, but they are built to work as one program.
Multi-state, from one place
Each member of our team is committed to meeting all of your multi-state property tax needs. In practice that means one calendar rather than twenty, one valuation methodology applied consistently across jurisdictions, one point of contact who knows your portfolio, and consolidated reporting your tax and accounting teams can actually use — instead of a stack of individual notices from a different local firm in every state.
The bench
Four backgrounds, deliberately combined. Property tax outcomes are decided by people, and the argument that moves them is usually made by someone who has stood where they are standing.
Former Big 4 consultants
Property tax practitioners who ran multi-state engagements inside national firms, and who know how a large portfolio has to be organized before it can be managed.
Former assessors
People who built the valuations we now contest. They know what a jurisdiction will accept as evidence, what it will ignore, and which arguments are worth making at which level.
CPAs
Accounting discipline applied to the fixed asset register, the accrual, and the audit trail — the records that determine what a return says long before anyone fills one out.
Personal property specialists
Career compliance professionals who know the taxability rules state by state, and who have seen what an aggressive contract auditor does with a schedule nobody can explain.
Find out what your assessment should be.
Send us your parcel numbers or your most recent personal property statements. We will tell you whether there is a case worth pursuing — before you owe us anything.