{"id":4226,"date":"2011-05-11T07:07:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2011-06-01T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:07:44","slug":"morning-read-grieving-over-your-property-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/11\/morning-read-grieving-over-your-property-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Grieving over your property taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Property taxes are a huge flashpoint in the North Country, not least among second homeowners who complain of feeling like an ATM for local governments.<\/p>\n<p>Their waterfront property and upscale homes often assess for big bucks and their property tax payments now account for the lions share of taxes paid in several of the region&#8217;s counties.<\/p>\n<p>Still, grieving those high assessments is a hassle, so a lot of people don&#8217;t bother.\u00a0 But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/10\/nyregion\/westchester-towns-take-hit-from-rise-in-tax-appeals.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">New York Times<\/a> is reporting that there&#8217;s a boom in commercial grievances-for-hire.<\/p>\n<p>Their story focuses on Westchester county, where &#8220;a growing industry of companies [is] seeking reductions in homeowners\u2019 bills in exchange for a share of their savings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Towns are being forced to refund millions of dollars to homeowners who  show they have been overcharged. Some, like New Rochelle, have been  forced to increase tax rates to make up for the erosion of assessed  property values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Is this something that could catch on here?\u00a0 Is this a case of lawyer sharks finding a new pool to swim in?<\/p>\n<p>Or does this level the playing field between local governments and the people they tax?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property taxes are a huge flashpoint in the North Country, not least among second homeowners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}