Tax Base Trade-Offs: Policy Trade-Offs with Abatements (UFB-5 and UFB-6)
This post is part of a Civic Parent’s series, Take Your Seat at the Table: A Taxpayer’s Guide to Decoding ...
Your property tax bill & what it’s pointing to
The tax bill offers a highly personalized context to connect our property (the basis of our property tax) with the ...
Property tax dashboard: visualizing tax levies, tax base, & tax rates from 1998-2022
This data was published by the NJ Department of Community Affairs (that site is here). Each year, the state collects ...
See how your property tax bill is computed
Let’s take a look at how a tax bill comes together. It’s an interesting and empowering exercise to tie your ...
Open Letter/Comments to Mayor Fulop & City Council: What is being done to pressure-test the need for another citywide revaluation?
Sharing an open letter and thoughts that I read into the record at the City Council meeting on Oct 7, ...
Making Sense of Your New Tax Post Card
I received my new tax postcard in the mail yesterday so I figured I’d share a breakdown of how to ...
Property Tax Rate Math: A Quick Breakdown
Understanding the Tax Rate that Drives Your Property Tax Expense General Tax Rate = Total Levy / Tax Base. February ...
Two approaches to assessing property in 2024 (Jersey City & Monmouth County focus)
Consumers in 2024 are accustomed to modern technology automation (e.g., Netflix streaming, Chat GPT4, etc) but locals governments are slow ...
Quick Analysis: Tax Expense Change on the West Side, south of Lincoln Park
February 27, 2018. Appraisal Systems released a new batch of assessments this morning and I was most curious about tax ...
Property Tax & Revaluation Workshop: WHAT is Revaluation? (YouTube Video)
Learn the basics about property revaluation in this 8-minute CivicParent tutorial: ...
Why Property Revaluation is a Social Justice Imperative in Jersey City
Jersey City property taxes, as seen through state compliance data: Jersey City’s last citywide revaluation was in 1988. Jersey City’s ...
Who/What/When/Where/Why of Property Revaluation
WHO conducted Jersey City’s property revaluation? In 2016 Jersey City hired Appraisal Systems, Inc. for $4.4 million to conduct the ...
Jersey City Revaluation: Interactive Map Now Available from ASI, Inc.
Jersey City is undergoing a multi-month Revaluation process and appraisal firm ASI, Inc. is currently assessing all properties throughout the city ...
Jersey City Revaluation: Intro from ASI Inc, the firm doing the Revaluation
I attended the Ward “A” revaluation meeting on April 3rd and had a chance to listen to a representative from ...
2026 Property Tax Appeals – A Primer for Jersey City As Ratio Sinks to 72.82%
Reminder: Civic Parent is for general teaching and educational purposes. Nothing on Civic Parent should be considered tax, accounting, or ...
Workshop #1: Property Tax Appeals (March 26th @2pm in SPU’s McIntyre Hall)
Location update for the March 26th 2pm Property Tax Appeals Workshop: I'm excited to share my first workshop which will ...
Data Visualization of “Chapter 123” Law
This post is from 2023 and so some details are dated / relevant to last year. I will be writing ...
Property Tax Appeals & “Implied” Market Value
This post is from 2023 and so some details are dated / relevant to last year. I will be writing ...
Your property tax bill & what it’s pointing to
The tax bill offers a highly personalized context to connect our property (the basis of our property tax) with the ...
Property tax dashboard: visualizing tax levies, tax base, & tax rates from 1998-2022
This data was published by the NJ Department of Community Affairs (that site is here). Each year, the state collects ...
Open Letter/Comments to Mayor Fulop & City Council: What is being done to pressure-test the need for another citywide revaluation?
Sharing an open letter and thoughts that I read into the record at the City Council meeting on Oct 7, ...
Jersey City Property Tax Appeals: A Civic Step-by-Step Overview
For the past 4 years I’ve been researching and writing about property taxes and revaluation (among other topics) on CivicParent ...
Jersey City Together Helped Homeowners Save $40,000+ via Tax Appeal Workshops
Jersey City Together Tax Appeal Workshop. In March 2017 I worked with a team of Jersey City Together leaders to ...
Your property tax bill & what it’s pointing to
The tax bill offers a highly personalized context to connect our property (the basis of our property tax) with the ...
See how your property tax bill is computed
Let’s take a look at how a tax bill comes together. It’s an interesting and empowering exercise to tie your ...
Making Sense of Your New Tax Post Card
I received my new tax postcard in the mail yesterday so I figured I’d share a breakdown of how to ...