The Examiner U-46 News FeedFirm selected to represent U-46 in tax appeal cases By Seth Hancock
School District U-46 will intervene into appeals made by property owners who challenge their property evaluation with the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB).
By a 7-0 vote, the Board of Education approved of a resolution in May for outside attorneys from Franczek P.C. to intervene on the district’s behalf.
“A taxing district has the right to intervene in proceedings before the PTAB in order to protect the taxing district’s revenue interest in the assessed value of a parcel or parcels,” the resolution states. “The time period during which a taxing district may intervene is only 30 days after the taxing district’s receipt, from the local county Board of Review, of notice of the filing of an appeal by an owner or manager of a parcel or parcels of real property.”
The resolution adds: “The Board has determined that it is necessary, desirable, advantageous, and in the public interest to defend the Board’s real property tax base by intervening in PTAB appeals filed on parcels within the boundaries of the Board.”
Other area taxing bodies, like School District 93, only intervene when a commercial/business property owner seeks to reduce their property evaluation, but U-46 will also target individual residents who seek lower evaluations.
Ann Williams, deputy superintendent of operations, said “it does include residential and commercial.”
“A reduction granted by the PTAB in the assessed value of a parcel or parcels located within the boundaries of School District U-46 will lead to the issuance of a real estate tax refund from the current collections of the Board of Education of School District U-46…. The number of such appeals has been increasing in terms of both the absolute number of appeals filed and the total dollar amount of assessed valuation reductions sought,” the resolution states.
The district provided no information on previous interventions and the results but said it could when asked by the board.
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