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Written by California Attorney, Robert Lee Hamilton & Assisted by Tax Advocate, Ted Keller
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REDUCE YOUR PROPERTY TAXES NOW!
If you have purchased your home in the last six years, your California property tax may be assessed at a value higher than what your property is worth, and... You Are Paying Too Much Property Tax!
Tax Advocate encourages you to have your home reassessed.
Due to recent real estate de-valuations, hundreds of thousands of California property owners are paying hundreds or thousands of dollars in property taxes on values that no longer exist.
However, most property owners have no idea that there is any provision to reduce their property taxes due to the decreased value of their property.
Your local county assessor will not send you a notice that your property taxes are set at the pre-housing bust rates. Each county assessor has no obligation to inform any property tax payer that they are over-paying their property taxes because real estate prices have fallen. AS PROPERTY VALUES HAVE DROPPED, PROPERTY TAXES KEEP GOING UP.
To avoid the avalanche of homeowners complaining about these over-assessments, many county assessors issued statements that they will examine each property's assessment and reset the assessment to the correct current value. This is obviously a complete falsehood.
Below is an estimate of the number of single-family, owner-occupied homes in the following counties that were purchased within the last four years:
Even if each county assessor's office had a staff of many hundreds (which they don't), it would be an impossible task to assess so many properties in a timely manner, considering these numbers don't reflect the thousands and thousands of commercial buildings, apartment buildings, businesses, farms and other properties that are required to be assessed each year.
Your current property taxes were established by the purchase price of your home. There are no provisions for a decrease in your property taxes, unless you appeal your assessment.
Unfortunately, the current tax laws make the process of reducing your property taxes difficult and confusing.
That is why we created an easy-to-understand guide which can assist you to:
This guide will take you through the laws regarding property tax assessment and the step-by-step process required to apply for a reduction in taxes.
It includes each California County Assessor's forms, required evidence of change of property value, and most importantly, the appeals process.
The entire guide is written in common language (not lawyer speak) and is easy to understand.
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Informative Postings...
Guide To Reducing Your Property Taxes
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