Getting taxes reduced! Help from a legal expert

As a property owner, your real estate taxes are based on your property’s assessment.  Your property’s assessment is set by the local municipality where your property is located and is supposed to be based on your property’s fair market value.  Sometimes properties are fairly assessed, but sometimes properties are over-assessed in which case property owners are paying more than their equitable share of real estate taxes.

With the help ofJames G. Dibbini & Associates, P.C., it is possible to protest your property’s assessment and potentially get your taxes reduced.  The first step in this process entails filing a formal complaint (also known as a grievance) with your local municipality within a specified time called the grievance period.
Every municipality sets it own grievance period as follows:

January 1, 2011 –  January 15, 2011

February 1, 2011 –  February 15, 2011

City of White Plains

Villages of:

• Croton-on Hudson
• Bronxville
• Tuckahoe
• Ardsley
• Dobbs Ferry
• Elmsford
• Irvington
• Tarrytown
• Larchmont
• Mamaroneck
• Sleepy Hollow
• Pleasantville
• Port Chester
• Hastings-on-Hudson

June 1, 2010 –  June 15, 2010

November 1, 2010 –  November 15, 2010

Towns and Cities:

• Mt. Vernon
• New Rochelle
• Peekskill
• Rye
• Bedford
• Cortlandt
• Eastchester
• Greenburgh
• Harrison (village and town)
• Lewisboro
• Mamaroneck
• Mt. Pleasant
• New Castle
• North Castle
• North Salem
• Ossining
• Pelham
• Pound Ridge
• Scarsdale
• Somers
• Yorktown
• Mt. Kisco

City of Yonkers

Each deadline should be confirmed through your local assessor’s office.