From H. LeRoy Whiteley, Jr., Founder of Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation: Hello Fellow Beleaguered Property Taxpayers We are rapidly approaching the 2013 General Assembly session and therefore have begun gearing up for a new run at effecting property assessment and appeals reform. Over the summer we assembled a 45 page report entitled ” The […]
Whiteley: Requesting Worksheets and Petition for Review of Real Property
From Roy Whiteley, Founder, Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation: Hello Fellow Property Taxpayers SDAT (Department of Assessments and Taxation) and the General Assembly once again decided we property owning taxpayers have no need, interest in, or right to access copies of our own or of comparable property worksheets via the Internet in much the same […]
Whiteley: “…We Property Taxpayers Obviously Do Not Care Enough About Any of These Issues Since Most Have Done Little or Nothing to Support Them”
From Roy Whiteley, Founder, Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation: The 2012 General Assembly session is over. Another wasted 90 days where O’Malley, Busch, Miller and the Democratically controlled General Assembly passed the default “dooms day” budget giving Maryland’s taxpayers an additional $500 million of increased taxes. Once again, the Committees have failed to recognize the […]
Whiteley: “To Deny the 2 Million Property Taxpayers of this State the Opportunity to Study the Failed, Flawed Assessment and Appeals System is Unconscionable”
From Roy Whiteley, Founder, Marylanders For Fair Property Taxation: April 5, 2012 Chairman Hixson and Members of the Ways and Means Committee We have heard through the grapevine that HB 789 Internet Access to Property Assessment Worksheets and HB 881 Task Force to Review Property Assessment and Appeals Procedures may not see the light of […]
Whiteley: “You Must Realize We Do Not Send Legislators to Annapolis and Ask Them to Do Our Bidding Without Letting Them Know How We Want Them to Act”
From H. Leroy Whiteley Jr., founder, Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation: IT’S NOT TOO LATE????! Support Passage of HB 789 Internet Access to Worksheets And HB 881 Property Review Task Force WE NEED YOUR HELP TO BRING THESE ISSUES TO THE FLOOR FOR ACTION. HB 789 Internet Access to Worksheets would give us unlimited access […]
Whiteley: “This Bill Will Give Us Taxpayers Internet Access to Residential Worksheets Much Like the Real Property Data Search Sheets Already Available on the Department of Assessment and Taxation Website”
From Roy Whiteley, Founder, Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation: HB 789 PROPERTY TAX — ASSESSMENT WORKSHEETS — INTERNET ACCESS HEARING DATE FEBRUARY 28, 2012 Short notice – but great news?? This gives us a second chance?? We apologize for not knowing of this sooner. Delegate Susan McComas just informed us that she has introduced HB […]
Whiteley: “Bring SDAT Into the 21st Century with Proper Technology”
From Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation: Chairman Kasemeyer and Committee Members Here we go again?? Yesterday at the hearing on SB 215 Internet Access to Worksheets, SDAT, in the person of Director Robert E. Young, we again saw the difficulty SDAT people have in telling the whole truth. Director Young testified that the Department opposed […]
Whiteley: Budget and Taxation Committee Votes Unfavorably on Right to Record Bill
From Roy Whiteley, Founder, Marylanders For Fair Property Taxation: Unbelievably, after passing this bill out of committee last year and then passing the full Senate last year 46 to 0, the Budget and Taxation Committee this year voted unfavorably on the same bill!!!! Chairman Edward J. Kasemeyer sent Senator Glassman and us the following explanatory […]