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Assessment Appeals

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Dates Changed for Assessment Postponements

Property owners are permitted to postpone their hearings only once and will have the new appeals heard on Saturdays in late July or early August.

The Allegheny County Board of Property Assessments Appeals and Review is updating the rules with its assessment appeals regarding hearing postponements. The board voted that any hearing that has been postponed by either party will be rescheduled for Saturday dates starting in late July or early August. All of those hearings will be held on the third floor of the County Office Building located at 542 Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh. The assessments appeals board also reemphasized its rule permitting only one postponement per property. To postpone an appeal, the property owner must submit the request in writing at least seven days before the scheduled hearing date. If property owners are making emergency requests, they must be made in writing …

Monday, April 2, 2012

Last Chance: File Your Allegheny County Property Assessment Appeal and Attend a Town Hall

Life gets busy. Deadlines creep up on us all. Patch helps you to remember—before it's too late.

Welcome to Last Chance, a Patch series reminding you of deadlines you don't want to miss. This week's dates to remember?  1.) Today is the last day for property owners in Allegheny County to file formal appeals of their 2013 court-ordered reassessments. Forms must be postmarked on or before today. They also may be taken to one of several collection points today.  “I encourage all property owners to file a formal appeal by Monday’s deadline to preserve their legal rights,” County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said in a statement. “In fact, I am filing an appeal on my own property because I do not agree with its 2013 court-ordered reassessment value," he said. "Appeals may always be withdrawn, but once Monday’s deadline passes, property owners …

MD

8:05 am on Monday, April 2, 2012

Everybody needs to file,the best thing that could happen for the property owners beside reducing your assessment that it will never happen again. We need Property tax reform,it's simply everybody pays on straight line tax on groceries,clothing,etc there has to be a better way.Keep fighting for a change ! They just spend millions of taxpayers money to have what ? FAIR MARKET VALUE. It's only worth…   more ›

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