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Professionals
Real property tax provides the largest share of local government revenue and a significant expense to business entities. Hodgson Russ provides skilled, practical guidance to public and private entities in all matters of real property tax, starting with tax planning and tax exemption applications, establishing PILOT arrangements, assessment grievance filings, and administrative and judicial proceedings at the trial and appellate levels. We work closely with appraisers and assessors to resolve tax disputes and ensure fair treatment of taxpayers.
Our firm has particular experience in dealing with issues raised by contaminated properties. Significant efforts are being made by government and business to restore former industrial lands to productive use; these properties provide both challenges and opportunities. Our attorneys have worked on tax disputes involving some of the largest contaminated sites in the country. Our experience includes working on properties that include power generation assets like wind farms and co-generation facilities, oil and gas facilities, pipelines, telecommunications towers, and wineries and other agricultural properties.
Our eminent domain experience includes all aspects of the condemnation process at the federal, state, and local level. We represent both condemning agencies and property owners in all aspects of the process as well as on inverse condemnation claims from project conception through judicial resolution. Eminent domain proceedings require a negotiation that presents opportunities to resolve disputes without litigation, and, working with appraisers, we have been able to resolve many disputes at this stage. Our command of the process and long experience in the field allow us is to efficiently arrive at the fair compensation for the acquisition and to successfully navigate any required judicial proceedings.
- Appellate Division Rejects Claims of Telecommunication Companies Seeking Real Property Tax Exemptions
- Obtained Exemption Under Real Property Tax Law § 420-a
- Resounding Success for Hodgson Russ Before the New York Court of Appeals
- Tax Refund Denial Benefits Multiple Municipalities and Public Entities
- Victory for Town Has Statewide Implications for Challenges to Real Property Assessments
In the News
- Law360, June 9, 2023
- Tax Notes State, May 8, 2023
- Buffalo News, September 14, 2022
- The Buffalo News, August 8, 2021
- Law360, May 18, 2020
- American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) - News & Notes, November 12, 2019
- NYCOM Municipal Matters, June 17, 2019
- New York Law Journal, December 13, 2018
Press Releases
- June 6, 2023
Publications
- Law360, June 9, 2023
- Hodgson Russ Real Property Tax Assessment & Eminent Domain Alert , May 10, 2023
- Tax Notes State, October 10, 2022
- Tax Notes State, October 25, 2021
- Tax Notes State, March 22, 2021
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, September 22, 2020
- Tax Notes State, August 17, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Municipal Alert, May 5, 2020
- Tax Notes State, April 13, 2020
- Tax Notes State, April 13, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, April 6, 2020
- Tax Notes State, March 23, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Municipal, Real Property Tax Assessment, and Telecommunications Alert, September 20, 2019
- Real Property Tax Assessment & Eminent Domain Alert, February 11, 2019
- Municipal Law Alert, February 4, 2019
Presentations & Events
- February 27, 2020
- New York State Assessors’ Annual Training ConferenceLake Placid, New York, September 24, 2019
- Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, May 16, 2019
- October 20, 2017
- Verona, NY, October 16, 2017