Property Owners, Penalties, Property Tax

Return to Sender: When Not Updating Your Address Becomes a Legal Headache

Pullman & Comley - For What It May Be Worth on 7/1/2025

In a recent case before the Appellate Court of Connecticut, Judge Jose A. Suarez penned an opinion holding that owners of income-producing real property bear the burden of updating municipalities of a change in their address,...more

Federal and State Tax Relief Resulting from California Fire

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/17/2025

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided broad tax relief to taxpayers in Los Angeles County impacted by the recent winds and wildfires. Other counties may be added later....more

Update on San Francisco’s Treatment of Vacant Properties

Buchalter on 2/20/2023

Update - This article is partly a republication of a Client Alert that was issued on December 6, 2022 titled “San Francisco’s Commercial Vacancy Tax.” Readers who have already read the original article can simply read...more

General Assembly Approves Legislation Allowing All Counties Except Cook County to Waive Interest Penalties for Late Property Tax...

Franczek P.C. on 5/28/2020

Last week, the General Assembly adopted legislation that attempts to clarify the power of county boards to waive all or a portion of the interest penalty of 1.5% per month that is normally applied to late property tax...more

Cook County Board to Consider Sixty Day Break on August Tax Bill

Franczek P.C. on 5/16/2020

This week Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced that the County Board of Commissioners will be considering an ordinance at their May 21st meeting to waive penalty interest for 60 days following the August 2nd...more

Nassau County Commercial Real Property Tax Alert

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 3/9/2018

Annual Survey of Income and Expenses – ASIE-2017 Pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code, Section 6-30, the Nassau County Department of Assessment (“the Assessor”) is requiring the submission of 2017 financial data...more

South Carolina County Government Must Give Taxpayers a Hearing on Property Tax Penalty Where the Taxpayer Raises County Error

Burr & Forman on 6/1/2017

If South Carolina property taxes are not timely paid, the county Assessor must assess a late-payment penalty. However, the county Treasurer is given authority to waive an assessed late payment penalty if a taxpayer can...more

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