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Unconscionable: Tax Delinquency Sales As A Form Of Dignity Taking, Andrew W. Kahrl Mar 2018

Unconscionable: Tax Delinquency Sales As A Form Of Dignity Taking, Andrew W. Kahrl

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Stategraft, Bernadette Atuahene, Timothy Hodge Jan 2018

Stategraft, Bernadette Atuahene, Timothy Hodge

All Faculty Scholarship

Although sometimes difficult to detect, governmental power abuses can have detrimental impacts. Property tax assessments provide an effective lens to examine this phenomenon because, given the complexity of calculating property tax assessments, it is difficult for citizens to know when local government has exceeded its legitimate taxing authority and crossed into the realm of illegal extraction. Michigan is an ideal case study because it protects property owners by making assessment-related power abuses more visible through a unique state constitutional provision: property tax assessments cannot exceed 50 percent of a property’s market value. Abuses have persisted nevertheless. Between 2011 and 2015, …


Stategraft, Bernadette Atuahene, Timothy Hodge Dec 2017

Stategraft, Bernadette Atuahene, Timothy Hodge

Bernadette Atuahene

Although sometimes difficult to detect, governmental power abuses can have detrimental impacts. Property tax assessments provide an effective lens to examine this phenomenon because, given the complexity of calculating property tax assessments, it is difficult for citizens to know when local government has exceeded its legitimate taxing authority and crossed into the realm of illegal extraction. Michigan is an ideal case study because it protects property owners by making assessment-related power abuses more visible through a unique state constitutional provision: property tax assessments cannot exceed 50 percent of a property’s market value. Abuses have persisted nevertheless. Between 2011 and 2015, …


Court Of Appeals Of New York, Harner V. County Of Tioga, Gerald C. Waters Jr. Nov 2014

Court Of Appeals Of New York, Harner V. County Of Tioga, Gerald C. Waters Jr.

Touro Law Review

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The Tax Treatment Of Cancelled Interest And Penalties On Consumer Debt, Richard C.E. Beck Jan 2009

The Tax Treatment Of Cancelled Interest And Penalties On Consumer Debt, Richard C.E. Beck

Articles & Chapters

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The Tax Treatment Of Cancelled Interest And Penalties On Consumer Debt, Richard C.E. Beck Jan 2008

The Tax Treatment Of Cancelled Interest And Penalties On Consumer Debt, Richard C.E. Beck

NYLS Law Review

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The Tax Consequences Of The Statutory Right Of Redemption In Property Foreclosures, C. Barrett Pasquini Mar 2007

The Tax Consequences Of The Statutory Right Of Redemption In Property Foreclosures, C. Barrett Pasquini

William & Mary Law Review

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Taxation-Federal Tax Liens--Priority Of Senior Federal Lien Over Local Tax Lien In Mortgage Foreclosure, Samuel J. Mckim Iii Jun 1963

Taxation-Federal Tax Liens--Priority Of Senior Federal Lien Over Local Tax Lien In Mortgage Foreclosure, Samuel J. Mckim Iii

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a first mortgagee, instituted a foreclosure proceeding joining the mortgagors, a second mortgagee, several judgment creditors, and the United States Government. The Government's lien had been recorded subsequently to the first mortgage but had attached prior to the accrual of various local real estate taxes. Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, that the premises be sold free of the United States lien but subject to all local real property taxes, was granted. After reversal on appeal, the court again granted summary judgment and effected the same distribution, this time by directing that all local real property taxes be paid as …


Constitutional Law - Due Process - Notice Required To Validate Tax Foreclosure Of Property Of Known Mental Incompetent, Frank M. Lacey S.Ed. Dec 1956

Constitutional Law - Due Process - Notice Required To Validate Tax Foreclosure Of Property Of Known Mental Incompetent, Frank M. Lacey S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

On May 8, 1952, the town of Somers instituted an action to foreclose a number of tax liens. One of these was upon the property owned by a person known in the community to be a mental incompetent, but who had not yet been so certified by a court. Notice was given to the incompetent taxpayer in compliance with the statute by mail, posting, and publication. When she failed to answer within the prescribed period, foreclosure was entered and a deed to her property delivered to the town. Five days later she was declared a person of unsound mind, and …