Saved! NH Supreme Court Allows Tax Abatement Request Despite Lack of Required Signature
Challenging real estate tax assessments in New Hampshire requires compliance with a handful of statutory steps. Among other things,...
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Good-bye Summer: Hello Tax Rate Setting Season in New Hampshire
As the summer draws to a close, New Englanders take their boats out of the water, plan fall hikes and enjoy the last vestiges of warm...
Nashua Homeowner Continues to Fight for Fair Assessments
As written about previously, Citizen Exposes Flaws in Assessing Practices in Nashua, New Hampshire, a private citizen, Laurie Ortolano...
September 3 is the Deadline to Challenge a Denial of a Property Tax Refund in N.H.
September 3, 2019 is the deadline to challenge a municipalities’ denial of your request for refund of the 2018 real estate taxes. Please...
Sales Approach to Value
As written about in a previous Allobar blog, The Three Approaches to Value: The Cost, Income and Comparable Sales Methods, the sales...
Interest Rate Reduction – Good News for Taxpayers
Effective the tax year beginning April 1, 2019, the amount of interest New Hampshire taxpayers must pay on real estate tax not paid...
Can Encumbrances Affect a Property’s Assessed Value?
Yes, sometimes they can. A property may be subject to so many restrictions as to have no real value. Common area in a residential or...
Appeal to BTLA or Superior Court? That is the Question.
Published on the New Hampshire Bar Association web site on June 21, 2013. There are still a couple of months left for taxpayers to decide...
Temperatures are Rising and Assessors are Revaluing Property in New Hampshire
As the summer starts to heat up, assessors and appraisal companies are conducting revaluations across New Hampshire. Some of the...
How to Read a Property Tax Card
Every parcel of real estate in the State of New Hampshire has an assessor’s record. Commonly, we would know that record as a ‘Property...
A Revaluation Is Coming
As written about in a previous blog, municipalities in NH are required to conduct revaluations every five years. The purpose of a...
The Equalization Ratio: The Curveball of the Property Tax System
The most counterintuitive aspect of the property tax system is the equalization ratio. If a taxpayer has very reliable information that...
Dark Store Theory or Value in Use - The Great Debate in Valuing Big Box Stores
The battle that is being fought across the country in property tax cases is the valuation of big box stores. These big box stores are...
N.H. Property Tax Round Up 2018 – The Hunt for Snipe On A Moonless Landscape
Published in the February, 2019 issue of the New Hampshire Bar News and on the New Hampshire Bar Association web site. The General Court...
March 1 is the Deadline to Challenge New Hampshire Property Taxes
March 1, 2019 is the deadline to challenge your 2018 real estate taxes. Please keep in mind the deadline to challenge your 2018 real...
The One New Year’s Resolution to Keep – Appeal Your N.H. Property Tax Bill by March 1
This is the time of year where everyone makes New Year’s resolutions that they are bound to break. Health club membership sales...
The Property Tax – With All Its Warts – Has its Advantages
From the perspective of taxpayers, the property tax certainly can seem onerous at times. The rate of the tax is based on the value of...
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act Just Gave Residential Taxpayers One More Reason to Scrutinize Their Propert
Before the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, homeowners did not bear the complete burden of overpaying their property taxes because it was shared...
RETaxRefund.com – Eliminating barriers to Residential Property Tax Refunds
Why don’t people file for a refund for their residential property tax? The experienced professionals have seen the barriers that prevent...
Appeals of Unfavorable Property Tax Refund Applications in New Hampshire: A Brief Introduction
In New Hampshire, property taxpayers may file property tax abatement applications with their local municipalities by March 1 of the...