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hometaxsaver · 1 month

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Tips To Help Homeowners Unlock Property Tax Relief

If you are a homeowner who has recently purchased a new property, we understand how relieving it can feel to live rent-free finally. However, now that you own a home doesn't mean you don't have to pay anything.

You must file and pay your property taxes every year. While it might not sound like a big deal, property taxes can easily affect your budget, especially if your property has been assessed wrongfully. Not to mention, since real estate values tend to rise over time, so will your property tax.

But don't worry. There are a few things you can do to successfully bring down your property taxes and correct the situation. To help you out, today's article will discuss a few things all homeowners in Nassau County can do to lower their property taxes.

Check Your Property Tax Card.

Did you know you can always go to your city or town hall and ask for a copy of your property tax bill from the local assessor's office? If not, you are one of many homeowners who are missing out on this opportunity.

Your tax card will give you all the information your town has about your property. This includes information like the total size of your lot, precise dimensions of all rooms, and several other important details.

Once you have this card, it's best to review all the information it has on your property. If you find any misinformation, raise this issue with the tax assessor. They will either conduct a re-evaluation of your property or correct the information. While you may not believe it, mistakes are common. Once you find and successfully rectify a mistake, you can quickly get a property tax deduction.

Look At All Tax Exemptions.

You could qualify for a tax exemption if you fall into specific categories. Below are a few property types and demographic groups for which municipalities and states can lower the tax burden:

Homestead exemptions

Agriculture properties

People with certain disabilities

Veterans

Senior citizens

Please check with your local tax authority to see if you can qualify for such an exemption and then apply for it.

Hire A Professional To Appeal Your Taxes.

A professional will know different strategies to help reduce your real estate taxes. Working with a professional is usually the best solution, especially if you don't know how to appeal property taxes.

You can easily find several firms that offer homeowners help with real estate tax grievance procedures. They can help reduce your taxes by carefully going through the grievance process on your behalf. Since they have years of experience dealing with similar cases, they understand this process and can ensure it goes smoothly and yields ideal results.

If you want to learn more about the process or want to get started, feel free to speak with a professional for answers. However, ensure you do thorough research before you hire someone to help you with the process. Working with someone with the right skills and experience is the only way to ensure a favorable outcome.

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real-estate-11050 · 4 years

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Homeowners in Nassau County, NY. Grieve Your Real Estate Taxes before April 30, 2020 to Reduce Your Taxes in 2021! Like most homeowner, you've been meaning to grieve your high taxes for years, but never found the time. The COVID pandemic presents the gift of Time, use it wisely and "Grieve Now or forever hold your peace!" William Bodouva, Jr. REALTOR® ABR® #hightaxes #grievetaxes #realestate #realtor #professional #businessadvice

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philipraices-blog · 5 years

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HAVE YOU EVER GRIEVED YOUR TAXES? IF NOT GET OFF YOUR BUTT & DO IT OR STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR TAXES!!!

Column: Have You ever grieved your taxes?By

Philip A Raices

-February 5, 2019

Many of us have tried to challenge our taxes attempting to lower them, due to the excesses of our tax system.

However, I am always surprised especially by those homeowners who have never made any attempt to grieve their taxes and when I ask them why not, they either say, “I never got around to doing it,” I don’t think they would get reduced,” “why bother, they’re just going to go up next year anyway,” “I don’t know what to do.”

Even those who are planning to sell in the future, maybe 1-3 years, should consider grieving their real estate taxes asap!; if not only just to only reduce them, but also, once you set up your grievance, it gets passed down to the next purchaser and they will receive the reduction, if any.

Once settled with Nassau County or your local village the assessed value will be adjusted. Keep in mind, this is a plus and an added value, since, when putting your grievance in motion and doing what you need to do in lowering your taxes can only be beneficial to the next buyer, when putting your home on the market to sell.

The process of grieving your taxes is not difficult and I believe homeowners think it’s an arduous task; but it is a piece of cake, really! There was a very detailed article in Newsday on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, all about how to go about the entire process and it’s much, much easier than one might believe.

You can go online and Google the article and begin the process.

However, Nassau County Legislator, James Kennedy and the majority Republican Caucus had filed a resolution in January with the Assessment Review Board to extend the time to grieve to April 30 due to all the late notices filed and mailed, mistakes and confusion about the new tax assessment but they settled on April 2. The Nassau County website had the following information that I feel is important to Nassau homeowners (including housing associations, condos and co-ops) and I quote: The information was based on 4 classes of property in Nassau County: CLASS 1: Residential and Residential Capped • CLASS 2: Condos, Co-ops and Multiple Dwellings • CLASS 3: Utility • CLASS 4: Commercial The updated valuations included in the notices are a result of the Department of Assessment’s 60-day review period, where property owners had the opportunity to review their preliminary new market value, update their property inventory and work with the County’s assessment personnel to identify and account for variables that affect property value.

During the 60-day review period, the County’s assessment personnel: • met with over 13,500 property owners one-on-one at four satellite locations and at the Department of Assessment in Mineola, to explain the reassessment process, address specific concerns and questions, obtain feedback, address questions about exemptions and adjust property inventory; • counseled 1,167 property owners by email; • continued to fine tune the data modeling to account for unique factors that influence property value. As a result of this 60-day review period: • More than 85,000 values for the 2020-2021 tentative assessment roll were decreased from the preliminary new market values listed in the Assessment Disclosure Notices that were mailed to property owners beginning on Nov. 1. • Of these decreases, 20,000 were for vacant land and 65,000 were a result of various adjustment factors including neighborhood, section, block, topography, inventory adjustments and other taxpayer inputs. For an example, ,system wide changes were made for properties with brick facades and fireplaces. • The number of Enhanced Star applications for senior citizens doubled and new senior citizen applications increased by 45%

In addition, the County Executive announced on Jan. 1s, that another 85,000 property values have been reduced based on taxpayer feedback. This adds more confusion to residents who now have to wonder if their assessments will increase based on the 85,000 reductions. “Nassau County homeowners have been abused by the assessment process. This whole process has created anger and confusion. Residents who have incorrect assessments will need to grieve and extending the deadline is the only fair thing to do” stated Legislator Kennedy. Recent reports estimate that MORE THAN half of Nassau homeowners will see a tax increase as a result of this Reassessment, and 115,000 of them will see an increase of 15 percent – 25 percent or more. An additional 60 days will allow residents to review all notices available, meet with Assessment, seek advice or appraisals as needed, and file a challenge if deemed appropriate. The Majority Legislators also reiterated their demand that the county executive follow through with her promise to hold public meetings throughout the county to discuss this reassessment. Residents can file a grievance on their own. If you have any questions about the grievance process please visit the Assessment Review Commission website at https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/1510/Assessment-Review-Commission.

On Feb. 8, the time to allow to grieve Nassau property taxes was agreed upon in the Nassau County Legislature and was extended to April 2.

Homeowners who believe that their assessed value for the 2018-19 school and general property tax year is too high, or property’s classification or exemption status is incorrect, are encouraged to file an “Application for Correction of Assessment” with ARC before the close of the grievance filing period on April 2, 2018. ARC applications can be obtained online at www.nassaucountyny.gov/arc. For individuals who do not have internet access, the application can be obtained in person at ARC located at 240 Old Country Road in Mineola, or by contacting ARC at (516) 571-3214. ARC hours of operation are from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Individual notices of tentative assessed value, which were mailed by DOA, are available for viewing to homeowners at www.mynassauproperty.com. While the notices show the assigned tentative assessed value for each property for the 2019-2020 school and general tax years, it does not reflect the amount of property taxes that will be imposed by a school district or local taxing authority. There is no fee to file an “Application for Correction of Assessment” with Nassau County.

“Homeowners need to be educated about the property assessment system. Make sure you look at your tentative assessed value and then use the county’s resources to self-file a grievance,” said Curran.

If owners have not received their assessment disclosure letter that had been mailed in January, they may simply call the DOA at (516) 571-1500 or visit the department website at www.mynassauproperty.com.

Philp A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 Great Neck NY 11021-2415. He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and a Certified International Property Specialist. Receive regular “FREE” updates of sold homes in your area and what your home would sell for in today’s market or search on: WWW.Li-RealEstate.Com He can be reached by email, at: [email protected], or by cell: (516) 647-4289.

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duaneodavila · 5 years

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Progressive unTaxing

There are two lessons that must be retaught every time a change is made to locales that tax base on the market value of real property. The first is that people don’t have a firm grasp of how taxes are assessed. The second is that people burned by the reassessment, meaning that their taxes will increase, will be outraged.

Nassau County, New York, is engaged in a reassessment, necessitated by myriad failures, both political and factual, but driven by a billion dollar hole produced by successful tax grievances that had to be repaid. The irony here is that half the billion went neither to the county nor the taxpayers, but to the cottage industry of tax grievance representatives, who took a 50% cut of the taxes they saved residents.

When people’s real estate taxes went up, they blamed the county, assuming it reflected a tax increase rather than a redistribution of taxes. In fairness, Nassau County real estate taxes are astronomical, but most of that is based on local school taxes. where per pupil spending exceeds $20,000. But since the county handles the assessment, how the pain is spread out comes back to the county, and makes the county the butt of ire.

Facing this huge hole, newly-elected Democratic Nassau County Executive Laura Curran decided to try again and do a complete reassessment of all 400,000 properties. Good intentions aside, such ventures are doomed to be dreaded.

Even if her administration handled every aspect of the reassessment perfectly, the confusion and fear of people destined to see their bills increase significantly were bound to create strife and anger. But making good decisions and executing them competently could have helped ease Nassau through a process that must take place.

And the execution, as one might expect, has its flaws. The taxpayers who make the most noise, and raise the biggest fuss, are invariably the ones whose taxes under the reassessment will go up. So the plan is to simultaneously correct the assessments, but ease the pain in slowly.

Curran is doing the right thing in creating an accurate roll. Now her administration needs to do it right. That means better helping people understand whose bills are changing and why. It means explaining how eliminating the incentive for tax grievance firms to solicit clients means lower rates for everyone. It means getting state legislators to publicly commit to a law that would smooth out increases over five years.

Newsday, in its typically myopic perspective, focuses on only one side of the equation.

Owners whose assessments increase drastically to their fair levels will find their new bills offensive. The best and only defense is open communication and utter competence.

Drastic increases in real estate taxes are, without a doubt, brutal. People will cry about how they can’t afford it, will be forced out of their homes, to eat cat food, to take little Timmy off the iron lung. Each story we hear will be heart wrenching, because nobody tells a story any other way.

But before you take to the parapets, consider that these same poor owners have been underpaying their fair share for years due to under-assessment, which means that someone else was overpaying taxes to make up the difference. If the reassessment is fair, then owners for whom taxes will “drastically” increase are owners who were “drastically” underpaying. It was a sweet deal, but it’s coming to an end.

Yet, the pain won’t be felt immediately, as the scheme is progressive, phasing in the increases over a five-year period. On the flip side, the notifications to homeowners of what their assessment will be, and what will happen to their hypothetical taxes, inform the owners who have been overpaying taxes for years of their “drastic” good fortune in taxes being reduced. Yay, right?

There’s a dirty little problem, however, that neither Curran, Newsday nor anybody else has noticed as yet. This means the people who have been over-assessed, and have been paying more than their fair share in taxes for years, now know what their correct assessment should be and how much in taxes they should be paying. But they will still pay more for the next five years than their fair share in order to ease the pain on other homeowners who have enjoyed years of paying less than their fair share.

So if your real estate taxes this year were $30,000, and you’ve been informed by the county that under reassessment, your corrected taxes should be $20,000, you will get a $2000* reduction (which beats the hell out of an increase, or even the same taxes as before) but still pay $8000 more than you should.

There’s an argument to be made that the pain of having one’s taxes increase is certainly worse than the pain of a decrease. There will also be some who express their willingness to overpay taxes to ease that pain for their neighbors, although it’s never clear that the people who takes this position are actually taxpayers and not merely the unduly empathetic who are very good at spending other people’s money.

But this isn’t about sad tears and poor little Timmy. It’s just money, and taxes, and the government taking money it needs from people who shouldn’t be paying it. The owners overpaying taxes have their own uses for their income other than charity for their neighbors who have been free-riding for years. Whether they have their own little Timmy or want to buy a mocha frappuccino really isn’t the government’s business.

None of this has to do with the government raising taxes, per se, which is where too many residents go because they fail to grasp how taxes are assessed and assume any increase in their taxes means the government is just spending more. This is only about paying one’s fair share, about the distribution of the tax burden between homeowners.

Now that Nassau County has admitted that it’s over-assessing some owners, it’s scheme to continue to do so, to take their money even though they concede they don’t owe it, is mere confiscation. What to do about the pain suffered by those who enjoyed years of under-assessment remains a problem, but the cure isn’t to seize five years worth of excess money from those who have been overpaying for years.

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Nassau County Grants Tax Grievance Extension

Nassau County grants property tax grievance extension until April 2.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran recently announced she has directed officials at the Assessment Review Commission (ARC) and Department of Assessment (DOA) to accept property assessment grievance filings until Monday, April 2, in order for the county to provide additional community outreach explaining the property assessment grievance process.

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hometaxsaver · 1 month

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Tips To Help Homeowners Unlock Property Tax Relief

Check Your Property Tax Card.

Look At All Tax Exemptions.

You could qualify for a tax exemption if you fall into specific categories. Below are a few property types and demographic groups for which municipalities and states can lower the tax burden:

Homestead exemptions

Agriculture properties

People with certain disabilities

Veterans

Senior citizens

Please check with your local tax authority to see if you can qualify for such an exemption and then apply for it.

Hire A Professional To Appeal Your Taxes.

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hometaxsaver · 2 months

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Best Strategies To Lower Your Property Taxes In Nassau County

While most real estate values in Nassau County have risen in the past few years, their future still remains uncertain. Valuation increases have largely been driven by two factors.

The outmigration of people from the city looking for homes in less dense areas with more room to stay comfortable.

Preexisting low inventories of housing in real estate.

Though outmigration has slowed, low inventories persist, keeping all property values high. Even if you already own a house, higher property rates mean you are likely dealing with high Nassau County property taxes.

While most homeowners think there is nothing they can do about their high taxes, that is not true! But how can you try pushing for lower taxes? To start with, try to understand that you are not lowering your real estate tax rate since it is established by the local authority, but you can always challenge and lower your tax assessment. Here are some things you can do to lower your property taxes.

Check Out Top Tax Exemptions.

If you are a veteran living in Nassau County, you could be eligible for a 15% property tax exemption (plus 10% for combat service or for receiving any expeditionary medal). Even surviving dependents and spouses can qualify for this exemption. In addition to veterans, volunteer firefighters, and ambulance workers who have served for five years can get a 10% exemption. This applies to both general and school taxes as long as your local school district allows it.

Look For Property Assessment Errors.

It is important to check all the details of your property record card, which is maintained at your assessor's office. If you can find them immediately, it can save you a lot of effort and time, challenging decisions, or errors. But what most people don't tell you is that they go there to check out their neighbors' property cards instead of their own.

By examining how your neighbor's property is assessed, you can better understand the assessment process and how it applies to your real estate. If you believe that there is an error in your property tax assessment, it's best to check out other houses in your locality. Is your home assessed like your neighbor's home even though they have a large garage and a backyard swimming pool? This would be an excellent reason to help bring down your home tax.

Look For Professional Assistance.

Have you ever heard the saying, 'Every person who represents himself in a court has a fool for a lawyer?' So, it's never a good idea to challenge your tax grievance yourself since most such cases go to court. It happens because most local towns deny petitions at the town level. Moreover, homeowners who file for a grievance themselves save much less in their property taxes. The cost of hiring an experienced tax grievance professional will be far less than what you will pay for higher taxes.

When checking out potential professionals, ensure your chosen expert is licensed, working all year round, has a professional appraiser, and never asks for any upfront fees since most work on a contingency basis.

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hometaxsaver · 2 months

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Best Strategies To Lower Your Property Taxes In Nassau County

While most real estate values in Nassau County have risen in the past few years, their future still remains uncertain. Valuation increases have largely been driven by two factors.

The outmigration of people from the city looking for homes in less dense areas with more room to stay comfortable.

Preexisting low inventories of housing in real estate.

Check Out Top Tax Exemptions.

Look For Property Assessment Errors.

Look For Professional Assistance.

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hometaxsaver · 3 months

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Top Three Myths Surrounding Nassau County Property Tax Grievance

A property tax grievance is a complaint that you must file with your town council to contest the assessed value of your property. Your property assessment is the value that ties the total worth of your home to a taxable amount. However, sometimes your assessment does not correctly match your home's value.

Suppose your property is being assessed at a higher price than it is worth. In that case, you are eligible for a Nassau County property tax reduction, including potential impacts on school taxes via the grievance process. However, much misinformation and myths surrounding property tax grievances in Nassau County discourage homeowners from taking this critical step. So today, we will bust some common myths and misconceptions surrounding property tax grievances in Nassau County.

1. You Can Do Nothing If You Disagree With The County's Assessment.

Despite many changes in the county's recent reassessment, your right to grieve is still the same! You can always submit a complaint if you find an issue or error in your real estate's description or think your tentative assessment could be high.

File an Application for Correction of Assessment with the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission by yourself or with the help of a professional. It's always best to get help from a professional since they are well-versed in the process and know how to do it right the first time.

2. Grieve Once To Enjoy Lower Taxes Indefinitely.

Another misconception many people have is that once you file a Nassau County property tax grievance, you enjoy lower taxes indefinitely. However, the constant changes in property values and fluctuations in Nassau County's real estate market necessitate an annual evaluation.

As a homeowner, you have the right to challenge your property taxes every year! And even though success is not guaranteed, the option to file for a grievance is always open, allowing you to pursue potential tax reductions depending on the current market conditions.

3. What Your County Thinks Your Home's Fair Market Value Is Is Fair!

The department of assessment's system ideally uses comparable sales and other types of known data to estimate what your real estate is worth to potential buyers. However, it would be best if you remembered that the real estate market in Nassau County is known to be dynamic. It means the county's assessment of your home could be off base.

If you think your county's estimate is high after reviewing the data about your property, you can always file for a tax grievance. Even if their estimate is close to what you think your home value should be, you could still get a reduction if the court or the Assessment Review Commission determines that the Department of Assessment has over-assessed your real estate.

We hope today's article has helped shed light on all the essential things you need to know to take the proper steps toward reducing your property tax assessment. If you would like more information about Nassau County's grievance process or would like to get started, please feel free to speak with a professional tax grievance consultant today!

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