Complex Property Tax Services

Minimize your complex property tax liabilities with expert reviews of your fixed asset records to analyze software, overhead allocations, intangibles, and other costs to help determine what is subject to taxation, based on each jurisdiction’s tax laws and rules.

This service is particularly important to determine the taxability for costs related to asset rebuilds, overhauls, upgrades, and other unique circumstances.

Our team will implement strategies to document and properly value idle or underutilized assets to ensure fair and equitable values in all industries.

Working with your facility and operations personnel to document supportable and realistic asset depreciation lives, we support your ability to recognize the influence on value from issues related to technology and business conditions in your industry.

For applicable industries, we analyze all elements of “unit” or other income-based valuation models used in the assessment of your property. This includes application of the appropriate cost of capital principles and income stream to be capitalized for your taxable asset base.

Our experts implement strategic processes to save clients’ money through fixed asset modeling, market value appeals, inventory, and economic obsolescence.

Advisory services will guide your professionals through each stage of the informal and board-level property tax appeals process to ensure all appropriate issues and factors have been fully analyzed, considered, and presented. We can also provide assistance to your legal counsel with complex property tax-related litigation.

Deploying a comprehensive approach that fully addresses each element of the assessment valuation process, we will uncover all relevant factors as we execute a thorough review and application of the cost, market, and income approaches to value.

Through the application of proven methods to accurately identify, measure, and document all forms of obsolescence (physical, functional, and external), we’ll ensure that loss in value from all sources is fully reflected in your assessed valuations.

Preparing proactive, thoughtful personal property returns is an important first step. Our on-staff engineers work with your facility personnel to take advantage of pollution control equipment exemptions many states allow. Our cost of capital studies reflect current financial market conditions that should be considered in the valuation process. Our professionals’ ability to identify and document all forms of obsolescence is used to ensure appropriate adjustments are made to the assessed valuations of your complex property.