Practice Areas

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 Litigation and advisory services regarding 

• Contractor disputes
• Liens
• Easements
• Excess funds from tax sales
• Property tax exemptions
• Tax refund actions
• Filing or contesting materialman’s liens
• Condemnations
• Foreclosures
• Quiet title actions

All aspects of property taxes:

• Property Tax Appeals
• Tax Refund Actions
• Tax Sale contests
• Property Tax Exemptions

• Office Buildings
• Apartment Complexes
• Automobile Dealerships
• Residential Subdivisions
• Malls
• Retail Space
• Warehouses
• Storage Facilities
• Raw Land

• Limited to multi-million dollar homestead properties
• Non-homestead properties valued above $500,000

For lower value homestead properties there must be specific errors:

• property is valued above previous year's sales price
• violation of the 299(c) freeze in value
• steep value hike 

    Mark Thompson is experienced in all aspects of real property tax matters. He knows the statutory tax procedures and  regulations governing the various taxing authorities (appraisers, boards of assessors, boards of equalization, and the tax commissioners). In many instances, he knows what the government is supposed to do better than the government employees and can point out not only when they fail to comply with the statutes, but also with the state regulations that also bind them. His clients frequently win on procedural rules where the taxing authorities failed to follow the law.     

    Thompson has over 25 years of real estate litigation experience. He has worked in private practice and in local county government, so he can anticipate what the government will (and won't) do.