Los Angeles County Relief
California Property Tax Associates (CAPTA)
Update November 2009. Los Angeles County is beginning to struggle under the weight of a huge increase in the assessment appeals workload. The real property owners of Los Angeles County are increasingly aware that California Property Taxes are greater than they should be. Commercial and residential property owners are filing appeals in record numbers. As California Property Tax revenues continue to decline, the budget continues to be cut at the very time the Assessors office needs to increase it’s staffing to cope with the increased workload.
What does this state of the assessment appeal process offer to property owners? Unlimited potential if things are handled correctly. Contact us today to find our strategy and recommendations!
Free Do it Yourself Los Angeles County Prop 8 Appeal Guide
For Los Angeles County Property Tax Reductions, assessment appeals, an appeal must be filed with:
Los Angeles County Assessor
Rick Auerbach
County Assessor
500 West Temple St., Room 320,
Los Angeles
90012-2770
213-974-3211,
FAX 213-617-2348
The State Board of Equalization On-line Property Tax Law Guide-Information on Los Angeles County property tax assessment reduction, assessment appeals,and related Los Angeles County property tax assessment issues.
The following is reprinted from Wikipedia:
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Los Angeles County is a county in California and is, by far, the most populous county in the United States. Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau give an estimated 2006 population of 9,948,081 residents, [1] while the California State government’s population bureau lists a January 1, 2008 estimate of 10,363,850. [2] The county seat is the City of Los Angeles.
The county is home to 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas. The coastal portion of the county is somewhat urbanized, though there is a large expanse of lesser populated desert inland in the Santa Clarita Valley, and especially in the Antelope Valley which encompasses the northeastern parts of the county and adjacent eastern Kern County, lying just north of Los Angeles County. In between the large desert portions of the county – which make up around 40 percent of its land area – and the urbanized central and southern portions sits the San Gabriel Mountains containing Angeles National Forest. All of southern Los Angeles County, north to about the center of the county, is heavily urbanized.
This county holds most of the principal cities encompassing the Greater Los Angeles Area, and is the most important of the five counties that make up the area. As of 2004, the county’s population is larger than the individual populations of 42 states considered separately (and on that basis is more populous than the aggregate of the 11 least populous states) and is home to over a quarter of all California residents. According to the United States Conference of Mayors, if Los Angeles County were a nation, it would boast a GDP among the twenty largest countries in the world.[3]
With 4,061 square miles (10,517 km²), Los Angeles County borders 70 miles (110 km) of coast on the Pacific Ocean and encompasses numerous other natural landscapes including towering mountain ranges, deep valleys, forests, islands, lakes, rivers, and desert. More specifically, the county contains the following rivers: Los Angeles River, Rio Hondo, the San Gabriel River and the Santa Clara River. The primary mountain ranges are the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains. It also includes the westernmost part of the Mojave Desert, and San Clemente Island and Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific Ocean.
Most of the population of Los Angeles County is located on the southern and southwestern portion of the county. The major population centers are the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys. Moderate populations are in the Santa Clarita, Crescenta and Antelope Valleys. The area north of the Santa Clarita Valley (Northwest Los Angeles County, adjacent to Ventura and Kern counties) is mostly mountainous, rugged, well-timbered and filled with coniferous forests that receives plentiful snow in the winter, right to the point of blizzard conditions. This area is less populated. Mountains in this area include San Emigdio Mountains, the southernmost part of Tehachapi Mountains, and the Sierra Pelona Mountains.
Most of the highest peaks in the county are located in the San Gabriel Mountains, which are part of the Transverse Ranges. They include Mount San Antonio (10,064 ft) at the Los Angeles-San Bernardino county lines, Mount Baden-Powell (9,399 ft), Mount Burnham (8,997 ft), and the well-known Mount Wilson (5,710 ft) where the Mount Wilson Observatory is located. Several smaller, lower peaks are located in the northern, western, and southwestern Los Angeles County.
The county has a total area of 4,752 square miles (12,308 km²), of which, 4,061 square miles (10,518 km²) of it is land and 691 square miles (1,791 km²) of it (14.55%) is water.
