Insights
Property tax insights
Practical notes from the work itself — filing deadlines, audit response, valuation disputes that recur by property type, and the timing rules that decide whether a benefit is available at all. Articles are published here as they are written.
In progress
Personal property filing deadlines by state
A working calendar of assessment dates and return deadlines, updated each filing season.
What a contract auditor is actually looking for
How contingency-fee personal property audits are scoped, and how to respond to the first letter.
Ghost assets: how they accumulate and what they cost
Why disposed equipment stays on the register, and what a physical inventory typically removes.
Hotel assessments and business enterprise value
Separating the operating business and the FF&E from the taxable real estate.
Applying for an abatement before you break ground
The timing rule that costs companies the benefit, and where it sits in a capital project.
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