As the dispute between Monroe County and a private housing developer we wrote about earlier this month begins to move forward, we’ve received a number of tips from residents of the Keys. They’re concerned about the status of a major international corporation’s legal quest to dodge property taxes in Monroe County. Read More

The Milford Township Board approved a proposal last night giving a tax abatement to GM for the construction of a new data center, but not without contention. GM is asking for a 12-year, 50 percent tax cut for the $258 million project, which would construct a 93,000-square-foot information technology facility that would employ up to 20 people. The automaker wants to use that facility and one like it in Warren to house all of its data needs, allowing it to consolidate some 20 other facilities across the world. The tax abatement would reduce the property’s tax bill from about $6.5 million to about $3.24 million for the next twelve years. Read More

The City Council approved an extension request from a local manufacturer to maintain its tax abatement. Read More

New York state's 2 percent property tax cap is actually closer to 4.6 percent statewide for school districts because they can exclude from the cap some of their increases in employee pension payments, according to a report by the Empire Center in Albany. Read More

Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday that scrapping the widely despised IMU property tax and returning the revenues from 2012 were necessary for his People of Freedom (PdL) party to keep supporting Premier Enrico Letta's left-right government. Letta said June's IMU payments would be suspended before his executive won a confidence vote in the House on Monday with the support of his own centre-left Democratic Party (PD), as well as the PdL and his predecessor Mario Monti's Civic Choice party. But Letta has not said that the tax will be abolished completely. "I'm confident it will be abolished and the money (from 2012) returned," Berlusconi said ahead of the second confidence vote Letta's government needs to pass, this time in the Senate, to take over the reins of power after two months of post-election deadlock. Read More

Driven in large part by new apartment complexes, the overall value of property in Hays County increased 5.1 percent, from $15.03 billion in 2012 to $15.8 billion in 2013, according to preliminary appraisals released on Monday by the Hays Central Appraisal District. Read More

MGM Resorts International has pledged to pay the city more than $25 million per year in property tax payments, community impact payments, community development grants, Riverfront Park improvements and "surrounding community payment savings", according to a summary of the host community agreement approved by Mayor Domenic J. Sarno.  Read More

Kanakuk Ministries has filed another lawsuit against a county official concerning personal property taxes for 2012. Read More

A group of Routt County property owners who’ve been affected by recent legislation changing the way agricultural land is defined for tax purposes is taking its fight to the state level. Read More

The Masonic Temple in Detroit has fallen into tax foreclosure, and despite making a $10,000 payment Thursday, could end up on the auction block this fall. Read More

Smiles broke out on the faces of a few County Council members Tuesday when a local attorney specializing in real estate and land use voiced his opinion that tax increment finance districts do not mix well with tax abatements. Read More

Philadelphia residents whose tax bills are slated to go up next year received good news Monday when a tax-relief package moved closer to becoming law. Read More

A months-long investigation by the Houston Press finds that Brookfield isn’t the only mega-dollar company that’s sitting pretty with a momentous tax break. Read More

The last two remaining major tax bills were amended in conference committee Tuesday and advanced in the House and Senate as the Legislature neared adjournment. Read More

The Accounts Department clerk who was fired last year after she made various claims of unethical behavior in City Hall to media outlets is suing the city for back pay and to get her job back. Read More

Pulaski County Assessor Roger Harrison died last Saturday after falling while working on a barn near Richland.  An ambulance took Harrison to the hospital at Fort Leonard Wood but doctors were not able to save him. Read More

Proposed legislation in Missouri could make it easier for county leaders to amend state paperwork dealing with property taxes. Missouri State Representative Mike Kelley says several Southwest Missouri counties have had audits which found small clerical errors, such as putting a number in the wrong column. Read More

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance and the Tax Authority have finished updating the legislation, the implementation of which has been postponed several times since it was issued in 2008. Read More