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Tax Valuation Protests and Other Tax Assessment Issues
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Length: 1:14:32
A residential closing, a traffic ticket, reviewing a will for a friend who has lost a loved one, reviewing an apartment lease in a college town ... these are some of the common and near universal experiences we as lawyers encounter once we have a law degree. Another scenario that most encounter ... sometimes for others, but often personally, is being called upon to contest property tax valuations. This seminar and accompanying materials do not seek to provide a treatise on the history of Alabama law an ad valorem taxation; rather, it hopes to share practical suggestions as to how one may effectively contest a valuation and have it "adjusted". Given that the author's practice is located in Birmingham, Alabama, a number of examples cited herein will be based on how County governments in Jefferson County and surrounding counties handle property tax valuation challenges.
Frank Coffey Galloway, III, The Woodcrest Group LLC
Frank C. Galloway III (“Trip”) is the founding member of the four-person law firm, The Woodcrest Group, LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. Trip’s practice has, for over thirty years, focused on various real estate litigation matters concerning disputes over title, zoning, land use, landlord-tenant, and boundaries. In the last 15-20 years an increasingly large focus of his law practice has dealt with representing clients in property tax protests and appeals.
He is a past present of the Young Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association, a 1985 graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A. in Religious Studies), and a 1988 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law where he served as Senior Lead Articles Editor of the Alabama Law Review. Before starting his private practice at Bradley, Arant, Rose, and White in 1989, he served as a law clerk in the Northern District of Alabama for the Honorable James Hancock.
