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This comprehensive, full-day seminar will help you reduce your business property taxes. You will learn how to recognize over assessments, save taxes on personal property reporting, avoid property tax litigation, and navigate the appeal process. Recent developments will be emphasized. You will also get practical tips for taking advantage of business incentives, abatements and tax credits, including how to avoid the traps, and how to make sense out of the alphabet soup of economic development incentives that you can use. This session will cover widely used programs such as property tax abatement, plus useful information about less commonly used programs such as Renaissance Zones, MEGA credits, TIF, Act 328, Opra, Brownfield assistance, Smart Zones, etc.

AGENDA

• Classification rules: why they matter now and how to use them to your advantage
• New exemptions and credits for personal property
• New cases making Board of Review appeals trickier
• What the government doesn’t tell you about incentives (but you need to know)
• Little known incentive traps and how to avoid them
• Incentives: know what’s negotiable and what’s not
• Dealing with down sizing, relocations and other unanticipated changes after you get the incentive
• How to squeeze the most benefit out of each incentive
• Property tax abatement: the unwritten rules you need to know
• Assessing practices: how to influence them
• Truths and myths about the fair market value standard
• How assessors misapply the fair market value standard
• The taxable value cap: how it works and how assessors try to get around it
• Appeal procedures: tips and traps
• Special appeal procedures for omitted or incorrectly reported property
• Avoiding litigation: how to negotiate with assessors and the Board of Review
• OINC: omitted/incorrectly reported property
• Personal property: unique rules on reporting and assessing

Your Expert Presenter:

Jeffrey S. Ammon an attorney with Miller Johnson who devotes a significant portion of his practice to economic development incentives, including property taxation, property tax abatement, and related real estate and construction matters. He is a member of Miller Johnson, a law firm with offices in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Ammon has represented many businesses in negotiating a variety of economic development incentives and has represented a variety of industrial and commercial clients on property tax assessment matters for about 30 years. He is a former chair of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Tax Policy Committee, and currently serves on the Michigan Chamber Board and Executive Committee. Ammon is a frequent lecturer and author on economic development, real estate and construction law matters. He has taught the Michigan Chamber’s Property Tax Seminar for more than 15 years.

Enrollment Fees—We Offer Group and Member Discounts! Payment must be received on or before the date of the program.

$295 (Price includes refreshments and a comprehensive reference manual loaded with materials that will serve as an instant refresher back at the workplace.)

Members: $270 (Membership will be verified; if you're unsure of your company's membership status, you may call 1-800-748-0344.)

Group Discount: The first person from your organization pays the full seminar fee, each additional person pays $25 less per seminar !

CANCELLATIONS/SUBSTITUTIONS: You must cancel at least 72 hours prior to the seminar to receive full credit toward another seminar that will be valid for up to six months. Less than 72 hours notice or no-shows will forfeit the entire registration fee. Substitutions may be made at any time by e-mailing services@michamber.com or calling 1-800-748-0344.

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