Category: Property

Beware of the Overstated Service Life in the Cost Approach

by Dickinson Wright | Sep 6, 2017

By Mark LansingThe cost approach requires the identity and quantification of three types of obsolescence – physical, functional and economic. Assessors frequently account only for physical depreciation (although some...

Michigan’s 2017 property tax assessment notices are in the mail. Should you appeal?

by taxblog | Feb 2, 2017

By: Bob Rhoades Local assessors are in the process of sending annual notices of real and personal property tax assessments to property owners/taxpayers, who must determine whether the assessments are correct and whether an...

Consider Making a Gift Contribution with Appreciated Property Instead of Cash

by taxblog | Dec 14, 2015

By Peter Sheldon If you are contemplating a gift to a charitable organization that is exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, consider the possibility of making the gift with appreciated property...

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