External Obsolescence in Property Tax

Description

In an economic recovery that's moving at a glacial pace, property tax specialists can help their companies cut taxes on real and business personal property by leveraging external obsolescence concepts, i.e. market-driven depression of the value of your business and its long-lived assets.

The principles of applying factors, such as a downturn in market pricing or a new category of equipment, to the worth of a company's land and equipment are relevant to the cost, sales and income approaches to valuation. Company tax professionals must stay current on their usage with assessors.

Property tax specialists must make viable, quantitative analyses of factors like marketplace transactions, the impact of willing buyers and sellers, current market capitalization rate trends, and cost approach adjustments — and present the analysis to assessors' offices in compelling fashion.

Listen as our panel of veteran property tax advisors equips you with the latest concepts you'll need to effectively apply external economic obsolescence concepts within any valuation approach you use, in order to justifiably reduce valuations and taxes on real or business personal property.

Outline

1. General principles of external obsolescence
   1. How those principles are applied in the cost approach
   2. How those principles are applied in the sales approach
   3. How those principles are applied in the income approach
2. Factors that can lead to external obsolescence
   1. E.g. availability of marketplace data
   2. Willingness of buyers and sellers
   3. Current market cap rate trends
   4. Cost approach adjustments
3. Relevant accounting guidance
   1. E.g. FAS 144
4. Making an effective analysis to assessment offices
   1. Anticipating and countering resistance to using economic obsolescence

Benefits

The panel will examine these and other critical areas:

• Identifying all possible factors, such as sources of sale data, buyer attitudes and market cap rates
• Distinguishing external obsolescence from other forms of obsolescence — from classification and quantification perspectives.
• Anticipating assessors' resistance and responding to arguments that GAAP doesn't recognize economic obsolescence or that depreciation encompasses all forms of obsolescence.
• Applying on-point accounting guidance based on FAS 144 and other relevant pronouncements.

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