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IF you need to file an appeal in California for a proposition 8 market value assessment appeal or any other regular appeal, then you will want to get a hold of the new appeal deadline sheet from the California State Board of Equalization. Here is a link to the deadlines publication. (Click on the PDF icon) Here is the link.

If you need help, give us a call and we can help you with your appeal.

The California State Board of Equalization has published their 2010 property tax calendar. You can find it in our downloads section or you can go to the California State Board of Equalization site at http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/2010.htm

Under proposition 13, which was adopted by California voters in 1978, property tax values are only allowed to increase by 2% annually. The California State Board of Equalization has posted the new 2010/2011 California Consumer Price Index to which property taxes may actually decrease. As suspected this year the CCPI actually went down by .237% which will result in a decrease across the board in property taxes that are currently assessed under Proposition 13.

For more information visit the California State Board of Equalization website or call our office if you need property tax advice or services.

This document recommends several tables of equipment index, percent good and valuation factors for use by all California Assessors in mass appraisal programs designed to derive the market value of Ca. business property within a band of value that meets Ca. property assessment appraisal standards.

Visit www.calassessor.org and go to the download section.

The latest document from the California Board of Equalization is out with the updated 2009 County by County Assessment Appeal deadlines. You can get the latest document attached.

http://www.ptax.com//components/com_mojo/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/filingperiods.pdf

On January 1, 2009 the California local county Assessors will no longer be required to conduct four (4) year audits of all taxpayers with over $400,000 of trade fixtures and business personal property.

California Assembly Bill 550 (AB550) removes the “mandatory audit” provision in the revenue and taxation code 469 and instead requires the county Assessors to conduct “a significant number of audits”.

What does this mean for you….. You may, or may not, be audited every four years and you may, or may not, be audited at will.

Our firm is already seeing audits take place in three (3) year cycles for our clients. Also, these audits are becoming more aggressive in determining revenue generation for the counties who lack sufficient property tax revenue in California.

Let me know if you have any questions.

What will this mean for your audit planning, accruals, etc.?

We have made our archived newsletters available for downloading in our downloads section of the web site. These files are in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format. There is a lot of information in each of these and some fun facts as well.

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See our newly posted case studies to help your company save money with your property tax liabilities. Visit our download section to download the .pdf files available. Go to www.ptax.com