Uniformity Appeal - Anyone Have Experience?

[froggy8]

I have been asked by an attorney to do a Uniformity Tax Appeal appraisal. He presented me with an appraisal that was previously used for a different property as an example. Does anyone have experience in this form of appeal? I have a few questions and am looking for someone to help answer them.

 

[BRCJR]

Probably same as equalization.

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

I have been asked by an attorney to do a Uniformity Tax Appeal appraisal. He presented me with an appraisal that was previously used for a different property as an example. Does anyone have experience in this form of appeal? I have a few questions and am looking for someone to help answer them.

If it is in PA, he's barking up the wrong tree. Have been in dozens and dozens of appeals where someone trots out the uniformity issue. Each and every time they are told that that is not the basis for an appeal. The sole consideration in PA is the property's current market value.

If the attorney is pursuing a "larger" suit (challenging the uniformity of the assessment as a whole) then it might be relevant but for an individual property lack of conformity is a non-starter.

 

[Riick]

Call the local assessor's office and find out what's needed for a tax appeal.
Some places use current value, some differ, in my locale, crazily enough,
they use the value of the property on a certain date - in the dim past (!)
--- Even if it was just a gleam in it's daddy's eye then.

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[Pittsburgh Pete]

In PA there are considerations to the base year of the assessment as well as the predetermined ratio and the common level ratio. Bottom line, however, is that conformity doesn't enter into the picture at all.