City of Philadelphia - File #: 100167

• File #: 100167
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 3/11/2010
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 3/11/2010
• Title: Calling on the Board of Revision of Taxes and the agencies that will replace the BRT if the voters of Philadelphia abolish it, to adopt regulations authorizing a property owner who is appealing an assessment to request an in-person inspection of the outside and inside of his or her property as part of the appeal process; and providing that a property owner who refuses to permit inspection of the inside of his or her property by an assessor shall be precluded from appealing the pending assessment of that property.
• Sponsors: Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Green, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Rizzo, Council President Verna, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Sanchez

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/11/2010	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:1
3/11/2010	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
3/11/2010	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Calling on the Board of Revision of Taxes and the agencies that will replace the BRT if the voters of Philadelphia abolish it, to adopt regulations authorizing a property owner who is appealing an assessment to request an in-person inspection of the outside and inside of his or her property as part of the appeal process; and providing that a property owner who refuses to permit inspection of the inside of his or her property by an assessor shall be precluded from appealing the pending assessment of that property.
Body
WHEREAS, On January 26, 2010, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Board of Revision of Taxes Executive Director Richard Negrin announced a moratorium on all routine property assessments in the City of Philadelphia, thereby acknowledging that the Board of Revision of Taxes ("BRT") has been incapable of accurately and fairly assessing real estate; and

WHEREAS, It is essential that all those who pay taxes to the City and School District of Philadelphia have their faith and trust in the fundamental fairness of the City's real estate assessment process restored. One step in restoring that faith will occur on May 18, 2010, when the voters of Philadelphia will have an opportunity to abolish the BRT and replace it with two professionally-managed agencies - the Office of Property Assessment and the Board of Property Assessment Appeals; and

WHEREAS, Another step in restoring that faith is to assure that, from this moment forward, whenever a property owner appeals an assessment, the information used to evaluate and determine his or her property's true market value is accurate and complete; and

WHEREAS, The market value of a property is generally defined as the price which a purchaser, willing but not obliged to buy, would pay an owner, willing but not obliged to sell, taking into consideration all uses to which the property is adapted and might in reason be applied; and

WHEREAS, The market value of a pr...