New law helps Florida property owners dispute tax assessments

Joe Ruble reported of a change in Florida Property tax law where Florida Property owners do not have to prove that the assessment is wrong in which only 10% of those disputing their property tax assessment won their disputes in 2007 (other than Dade County) which had a different type of dispute process. The new law will allow allows taxpayers to merely bring more compelling evidence of their assessment in order to prevail with a change in their Florida property tax valuation. Florida Governor Charlie Crist said this was intended to bring fairness back to the Florida homeowners. For the full article see New law helps property owners dispute tax assessments.