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Response to Erie County officials’ business killing health restrictions

11/29/2021

 
   How to get Erie County NY officials’ health restrictions on who can enter businesses repealed and never reissued. While the officials do NOT care how many may have lost their employment over these rules. These rules may have a side effect that these officials will care about it can cost them property tax money.
   While many businesses owners are already aware of these facts. What some county officials seem to have overlooked is by damaging retail business income they have reduced the value of the real property in the county as calculated by income and expense model of commercial property tax assessment.
   Unlike private home tax challenges which an individual can handle and are explained here https://www.divideny.org/challenge-your-assessment.html . Commercial property tax challenges require each business/landlord to ask the accountant that does their business taxes to do a few more calculations at tax time. If the business rents its business space it should try to make an agreement with the landlord to help the property owner reduce his/her property taxes for a lower rent.
   Many businesses can share the same attorney to file the multiple commercial property tax challenges before the spring Grievance Day to reduce their September 2022 and January 2023 property taxes. Hopefully enough businesses will take action so that it becomes too expensive for the county to reimpose these rules in the future.
 
Most of Erie County is assessed at less than market value so an accurate business property tax assessment should be a certain percentage below full market value. This will also work for other counties. Here is how Equalization works
Equalization rate formula
An equalization rate is New York State's measure of a municipality's level of assessment.
Total assessed value of the municipality ÷ total market value of the municipality = Equalization rate
Equalization rates are percentages: Examples
Equalization rate = 100:
  • town is assessing property at 100% of market value
  • most likely a reassessment was conducted in recent years
  • your property's assessment should be roughly its market value (the price for which you could sell your property)
Equalization rate < 100:
  • overall property in the town is assessed less than market value
  • the lower the equalization rate, the longer it has probably been since the last reassessment
  • equalization rate of 43 means overall property in the town is assessed at 43% of market value
Equalization rate > 100:
  • overall property in the town is assessed higher than market value
  • property values may have decreased since the last reassessment, but assessments were not adjusted downward
  • Greater 100 percent that means your whole town/city/village is over assessed at more than 100 percent full market value which is unlawful in NY. However, the only method available to force a municipality to obey the law and reduce everyone’s assessment down to full market value is an action in New York State Supreme Court. (a trial court in NY).
Here is a link to the equalization tables by county https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/property/assess/eqratecounty.htm
Here is how to contest a non-residential property assessment https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/contest/contestasmt.htm
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11/25/2021

 
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Contact your local paper or tv/radio station

11/19/2021

 
Write an editorial or letter to the editor of your local paper or email your local news station; on why you believe separation is the only choice. Please mention 2021-22 A04446- S4541 is a NYS constitutional amendment to divide the State into three autonomous regions. If it's published, please take a picture or email a link, send it to us at capitalchapterupstate@aol.com
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Video of Presentation of Home Rule request Grand Island

11/1/2021

 
Video of Presentation of Home Rule request, in support of partitioning New York State into three Autonomous Regions, to the Town Board of Grand Island. Timecode in video is 1:25:00 from beginning or -14:30 from end 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4MIFs1GUg

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