Property Tax and Valuation

Pullman & Comley’s, Property Tax and Valuation practice is one of the largest dedicated teams of attorneys and paralegals at a New England-based law firm focused on property tax appeals and eminent domain matters involving all types of commercial property. Our attorneys represent businesses, nonprofits and individuals throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts and have also worked with clients in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, offering a broad regional reach. The Property Tax and Valuation team can draw on the firm’s knowledge and experience in related practice areas such as real estate, environmental, energy and health care to provide clients with sophisticated, strategic representation tailored to their specific needs. With more than 90 years of collective experience, chances are that one or more of our attorneys has successfully addressed the specific property tax or eminent domain challenge that a client might be facing today.

Services that we provide in the Property Tax (Real Estate and Personal Property) area include:

• Revaluation: Evaluate a current or proposed property tax assessment utilizing various valuation approaches to include comparable sales, income and/or comparable assessment. Meet with the municipal assessor and/or revaluation company to obtain an equitable assessment without the necessity of an appeal.

• Local Appeals: Represent clients before municipal boards of assessment appeals and boards of assessors.
• Superior Court/ ATB: Litigate assessments before the Connecticut Tax Court, other Connecticut Superior Courts and the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board (ATB).
• Mediations/ Pretrials: Routinely resolve property tax appeals through mediation and at pretrial settlement conferences.
• Trials: Frequently serve as trial counsel in property tax appeals.
• Personal Property Audits: Represent owners of commercial personal property when their personal property accounts are audited by the municipal assessor or an audit company engaged by the municipality.
• Exemptions: Assist clients in obtaining and maintaining property tax exemptions to which they are entitled.
• Compliance: Advise and assist clients regarding the completion of property tax related filings such as personal property declarations and income and expense reports.
• Property Tax Projections: Collaborate with clients in the development of property tax projections, often in conjunction with acquisitions or new construction.
• Property Tax Agreements: Counsel clients in the negotiation and preparation of property tax related agreements such as assessment fixing agreements and tax stabilization agreements.
• Legislative Tracking: Monitor proposed property tax legislation for interested clients.

Our attorneys frequently lecture and publish on property tax topics. Some lectures have been delivered in person before such organizations as the American Bar Association, the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the Connecticut Society of CPAs and the Connecticut Chapter of the Appraisal Institute.  Other presentations are delivered via webinar, allowing us to reach clients and interested professionals nationwide. The Property Tax and Valuation attorneys regularly post to the practice’s blog, For What It May Be Worth.  In addition, our attorneys have authored the Connecticut chapters of the American Bar Association’s Property Tax Deskbook and Fifty-State Survey: The Law of Eminent Domain.

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