News

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4.3.08
Paul Pennington has been reappointed by the Texas Department of Regulation and Licensing to the Property Tax Consultants Advisory Board for a three year term ending February 1, 2011.

3.12.08
Texas-Property-Rendition forms.
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has adopted an amendment to the administrative rule concerning rendition forms, effective March 10, 2008. 

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2.25.08
More property tax reform needed in Texas - Gov. Rick Perry addresses the need for lasting property tax relief for property owners in Texas. 

1.25.08
Darrell Hallmark became a Senior Property Tax Consultant on 1/25/08 and
Grant Pennington also became a Senior Property Tax Consultant on 1/9/08 which is based on professional experience, education and successfully passing the examination administered by The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations.

12.4.2007
Chris Stanton Vice President of P.E.Pennington & Company, Inc. has recently earned the CMI designation from Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT). The CMI is the highest level of professional achievement offered by the IPT and is recognized as a nationally as an achievement of expertise in the property tax field.

7.26.2007
Recent Attorney General Opinion - Re: Whether communications about leagl matters between a tax appraisal review board and in-house counsel to a tax appraisal district violate section 41.66 or 6.411 of the Tax Code

3.28.2007
2007 Dallas County Appraisal Review Board Calendar

3.08.2007
Opinion Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist) Hartman REIT v.Waller County Appraisal District

3.12.2007
Paul Pennington will participate on a tax consultants panel August 27th at the TAAO (Texas Association of Assessing Officers) State Conference in Austin, TX.

1.24.2007
Texas Task Force on Appraisal Reform - Findings And Recomendations
Tom Pauken of Dallas along with fourteen other members of the Texas Task Force on Appraisal Reform presented the final report.

10.10.2006
Texas Apartment Association - Appraisal Reform Recommendations

10.8.2006
House Committee on Local Government Ways & Means - Texas House of Representatives Interim Report 2004

10.4.2006
Pennington's Open Letter to the Legislature.

8.21.2006
Rick Perry Creates Texas Task Force on Appraisal Reform
DALLAS - Gov. Rick Perry announced today that he is creating the Texas Task Force on Appraisal Reform (TFAR) to study and make recommendations on how to address Texans' continuing concerns over skyrocketing property appraisals. He appointed Tom Pauken of Dallas to chair the advisory group.

7.26.2006
Paul Pennington will moderate a panel (Working With Consultants - Appraisal District Viewpoint) at the 19th Annual Texas Association of Property Tax Professionals Annual Conference September 20 -22, 2006, at the Omni Mandalay Hotel - Las Colinas, TX.   

4.21.2006
Recent Case from the Court of Appeals

3.28.2006
Property Tax Case Law Update  August 2005 - March 2006 The Marshal Firm

3.16.2006
Paul Pennington to speak on Thursday, March 23, 2006 to the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas Independent Rental Owners Council (I.R.O.C.).   The council is made up of AAGD members who own or manage less than 100 units.
See www.aagd.org for more information.

1.5.2006
Paul Pennington has been to appointed by the Texas Department of Regulation and Licensing to the Property Tax Consultants Advisory Board effective 1/5/06.  The board makes recommendations to the commission standards of practice, conduct, and ethics for registrants to be adopted; setting fees; contents for the senior property tax consultant registration examination and standards of acceptable performance; and assist and advise the commission in recognizing continuing education programs and educational courses for registrants, and in establishing educational requirements for initial applicants.  The Council is composed of six members, appointed by the presiding officer of the commission, with the commission's approval.

8.23.2005
Paul Pennington teaches the class "Real Estate Damages, an Analysis of Detrimental Conditions",
Dallas, Texas, August 24, 2005
See www.taptp.org for more information.

8.22.2005
Paul Pennington teaches the class "Valuation of Office Buildings",
Dallas, Texas, August 22, 2005
See www.taptp.org for more information.

3.14.2005
Paul Pennington teaches the TAPTP Fundamentals of Personal Property Valuation, Houston, Texas
See www.taptp.org for more information.

2.1.2005
Proposed Property Tax Legislation - 2005 - House Ways & Means Report
This report by the Texas Ways & Means Committee details the unintended negative consequences of instituting Appraisal Caps.

1.14.2005
Proposed Property Tax Legislation - 2005
Summaries of some recent property tax bills which were filed at the Texas Legislature.

1.12.2005
Senate Unveils New School Finance Plan
Property taxes reduced by a third and franchise tax broadened.

1.11.2005
Paul Pennington scheduled to teach a Personal Property course 1.11.2005
This class qualifies for CE credits. See www.taptp.org for more information.

1.06.2005
Dewhurst School Finance Proposal Circulating In Capitol

1.04.2005
Dewhurst Calls Meetings with Senators on School Finance Strategy for Session

12.01.2004
Joshua Barnes joins P.E. Pennington & Co., Inc.

12.2004
Hill Opposed to Property Tax Appraisal Caps
Read the full story on www.quorumreport.com

Recent A.G. Opinion
Taxpayers win appraisal bout.

Proposed Property Tax Legislation-2005
Summaries of property tax bills which have been pre-filed, so far, for the upcoming
legislative session.

Texas 'tax climate' Holds Fourth Spot
From the Dallas Morning News.

Appraisal limits: A Wrong Turn on The Road to Property Tax Relief
Read the report to the Texas Association of Property Tax Professionals.

Unintended Consequences
By Mark S Hutchenson

Business Personal Property Taxpayers in Texas should read this important time sensitive message!