Post by sometimeman on Mar 12, 2008 21:45:21 GMT -4
* What is a tax abatement, you may ask. A tax abatement is when a taxing board grants a taxpayer a stay of paying a tax for a short or long term, for a total or percentage of the tax. They are given for any reason, like for the building of a new building to increase employment. A company having financial problems. Non profit groups, "churches, boy scout camp sites, etc". I have found private homes for questionable reasons.
www.landrights.com/tax_abatement.htm
* How do you get a property tax abatement? First you file a F.O.I.A. " Freedom of Information act." File it with your taxing board. (Township, city, county or state) The question you ask is; "Requesting to see the records of property that is now or in the past that have received tax abatements." Pick out the ones that have been given the most and the longest time. Get copies of the ones you want. There may be a charge for copying. They, by law have to give you the information.
* Now that you have the copies in your hand, copy the first five or six pages of each of the U.S. Supreme Court cases in this section or any other ones you may find elsewhere. Read these cases very carefully, you will have to know what they mean. They are cases where the Supreme Court has said, they cannot do for one and not the other. You are the other. Get copies of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendment, they refer to this. If you do not understand them, get someone to help you who does. Now make two copes of all the documents you have. The copies will go to the tax assessor. One for the assessor and the other for their attorney. You now have the material you need to get your tax abatement.
* At this point if you are not competent to do this, STOP HERE!!!! If you do not do it right, you will NOT get your tax abatement. If you are not ready to go to court if you fail, STOP NOW.
* Go to the taxing authority and confront them with what you have. Ask for the rebate of your choice. give them copies of the material you have collected. It makes no difference why they gave the abatement to someone else, they still have to give one to you. Let them know if you go to court and win, everyone will be able to get one. Is the chance worth it?
* You are entitled to any privilege they give to any other citizen.
www.landrights.com/tax_abatement.htm
* How do you get a property tax abatement? First you file a F.O.I.A. " Freedom of Information act." File it with your taxing board. (Township, city, county or state) The question you ask is; "Requesting to see the records of property that is now or in the past that have received tax abatements." Pick out the ones that have been given the most and the longest time. Get copies of the ones you want. There may be a charge for copying. They, by law have to give you the information.
* Now that you have the copies in your hand, copy the first five or six pages of each of the U.S. Supreme Court cases in this section or any other ones you may find elsewhere. Read these cases very carefully, you will have to know what they mean. They are cases where the Supreme Court has said, they cannot do for one and not the other. You are the other. Get copies of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendment, they refer to this. If you do not understand them, get someone to help you who does. Now make two copes of all the documents you have. The copies will go to the tax assessor. One for the assessor and the other for their attorney. You now have the material you need to get your tax abatement.
* At this point if you are not competent to do this, STOP HERE!!!! If you do not do it right, you will NOT get your tax abatement. If you are not ready to go to court if you fail, STOP NOW.
* Go to the taxing authority and confront them with what you have. Ask for the rebate of your choice. give them copies of the material you have collected. It makes no difference why they gave the abatement to someone else, they still have to give one to you. Let them know if you go to court and win, everyone will be able to get one. Is the chance worth it?
* You are entitled to any privilege they give to any other citizen.