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Property appraiser wins tax lawsuit against Port Tampa Bay shipyard >
The Hillsborough County, Florida, property appraiser has won a
six-year legal tussle with a Tampa shipyard after a circuit court judge
ruled it must pay taxes on land leased from Port Tampa Bay. The ruling
affirms the position the property appraiser’s office has argued in court
for more than 20 years: Businesses that operate on public land
generally are not tax-exempt. “Just as the judge did back in the 1990s,
the court again ruled in the property appraiser’s favor,” said Will
Shepherd, legal counsel for the Hillsborough County property appraiser’s
office. “The law’s pretty clear on this issue.” Read more
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Millennial purchase activity is on the rise, according to the
latest Ellie Mae Millennial Tracker. Purchase share - the percentage of
all loans closed during the month that were purchases – grew for the
second straight month, reaching 56% in June, up nine percentage points
from May. This marks the highest purchase share since March 2020. Read more
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Washoe County taxpayers will foot the bill for $56 million in
refunds to a group of Lake Tahoe property owners who began filing
lawsuits in 2003 claiming they were the victims of improper property tax
assessments. The settlement will result in a $23 million hit to the
county and a $19 million hit to the Washoe County School District. Read more
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+ IAAO Executive Director announces retirement >
IAAO
Executive Director Ronald Worth announced that he will retire Sept. 30,
and the Board of Directors has initiated a replacement search
committee. Mr. Worth joined IAAO as executive director in April 2015
after 16 years as executive director of an association in Washington,
D.C. During his tenure at IAAO, he oversaw the organization as it
increased membership, conference attendance, and expanded its
educational offerings and international outreach.
+ Free webinar: Everything you need to know about the Virtual Conference >
Virtual
conference season is upon us, and to help explain and demonstrate the
2020 Annual Conference on Assessment Administration, IAAO has a free
webinar scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 18. IAAO Staff will host “Everything
You Need to Know About the 2020 Annual Conference,” and dive into the
details of the platform, record amount of CEU's, and more features of
our 2020 event. Come learn the ins, outs, and must-sees of IAAO's
first-ever virtual conference. Read more
+ Women's Initiative Workshop rescheduled as virtual meeting >
IAAO
Women’s Initiative has moved the Dr. Brené Brown “Dare to Lead™”
training to a virtual workshop, taking place on four half-days in
September. It is your invitation to become a braver leader as you learn
the four empirically proven skill sets of courageous leadership that are
teachable, measurable, and observable. Read more
+ August webinar AssessR: A new tool for ratio studies and more >Cook
County Assessor’s Office Chief Data Officer Rob Ross will present a new
R package, AssessR, and show how assessors can use it to perform ratio
studies, look for sales chasing, and more during a webinar on Aug. 14.
AssessR was developed as part of the Cook County Assessor’s New CAMA
system, built on free, open-source software. It contains a growing suite
of helpful tools to streamline and standardize ratio studies. It is
available to the public for free, and its source code is public. In this
webinar, Rob will demonstrate how to open and read data into R, and how
to use AssessR to calculate ratio statistics. Read more
+ Legal Seminar set for Dec. 3-4 in Austin; registration now open >The
41st Annual Legal Seminar will be presented Dec. 3-4 at the Omni Austin
Hotel Downtown in Austin, Texas. It will cover legal topics of interest
to members of the assessment and property tax industry. Attendees may
register online or submit a paper form with payment. Fees are $500 for
IAAO members and $700 for nonmembers until Nov. 2. After that date, fees
increase to $550 for members and $750 for nonmembers. For more
information, see the registration and hotel page on the IAAO website. Read more
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IAAO Connect Corner
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+ Hot Topic: Annual reports >
IAAO Connect members are discussing develping annual reports for an assessor's office. Read more
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AROUND THE INDUSTRY
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+ The Miami-Dade Property Appraiser, 83, was set to retire. Then came a pandemic >
Earlier this year, Pedro J. Garcia, the first elected Property
Appraiser of Miami-Dade County, was thinking about retiring. He had
recently turned 83 years old. He had headed the 400-employee department
for nearly 12 years. He decided it was time. “I didn’t want to go
through an election cycle again,” Garcia said. “I don’t need this job. I
am not worried about paying my bills. I have enough savings to live out
the rest of my life comfortably. I could be golfing or fishing.” Then
came the COVID pandemic. Read more
Homeowners are fighting back with a class-action lawsuit after the
said their property values plunged because of how close they are to a
Cobb County, Georgia, medical sterilization plant that releases known
carcinogens into the air. Read more
Today's network of big-box retailers and online shopping likely
wouldn't exist without the deregulation of the trucking industry 40
years ago this month. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980, passed by President
Jimmy Carter, slashed the cost of moving goods by truck. It also eroded
one of America's great blue-collar jobs: truck driving. A truck
driver's salary has decreased by as much as half since deregulation. Read more
+ GOP lawmakers embrace tenant protection as mass evictions loom >
Republican lawmakers, alarmed at the prospect of a nationwide wave
of evictions as the coronavirus batters the U.S. three months before the
election, are starting to back the move to provide rental assistance to
tenants. A growing number of Republicans want the party's leadership to
include a renewal of a federal eviction moratorium, which expired July
25, and rental assistance payments in the next economic relief package.
And the White House is floating the possibility of an executive order
extending the ban. Read more
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+ Coeur d'Alene, Idaho >
Residential Appraiser II, Kootenai County See more
+ Norwalk, Connecticut >
Assistant Assessor, City of Norwalk See more
+ Phoenix, Arizona >
Director of Assessor Litigation, Maricopa County Assessor's Office See more
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