Property owners and triple net tenants may challenge their New Hampshire real estate taxes when the assessed value of their property is disproportionately higher than the assessed values of other properties in the municipality. The applicable statute, RSA 76:16, requires taxpayers to certify a good faith … Read the rest
Alfano Law attorney, John Hayes, successfully challenged a provision of the tax-deeding statute that permitted municipalities to profit from the sale of tax-deeded properties. While the tax deeding statute required municipalities to distribute profit to former owners if they sold the property within three years, the law does not require municipalities to sell tax-deeded properties within that time-frame.
In the … Read the rest
State and local taxes (“SALT”) are any additional taxes imposed by an individual state and/or locality aside from federal taxes that may apply. Unlike many neighboring states, New Hampshire does not impose traditional income and/or sales taxes. Therefore, it relies heavily on SALT for revenue. On the local level, SALT generally appears in the form of property and/or real estate … Read the rest
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Don’t mess-up the tax exemption for municipal real estate.
 New Hampshire exempts real estate owned by municipalities from the state real estate tax except where the property is used or occupied by a non-exempt party under a lease or other agreement requiring that party to pay the taxes. RSA 72:23. But what happens if that party sublicenses the property to |
March 1, 2016 is the deadline to challenge your 2015 real estate taxes.
Please keep in mind the deadline to challenge your 2015 real estate taxes is March 1, 2016. For more information on the application process, please visit our web site: http://www.paula89.sg-host.com/tax-abatement/
Disproportionality versus methodology
When challenging an assessment, what matters is disporportionality. One … Read the rest
Published on the New Hampshire Bar Association web site on February 17, 2012.
Both the General Court and Supreme Court were active in 2011. Here is a summary of key developments.
In Appeal of City of Lebanon, 161 N.H. 463 (2011), the Supreme Court addressed who qualifies as an “aggrieved party” where real estate is subject to … Read the rest
