Another case settled.
POTTSTOWN PA – Both Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township and the Pottsgrove School District have agreed to settle a tax assessment dispute lodged against them by Chestmont Properties LLC, which operates a cluster of self-storage units located on the south side of Industrial Highway in the township, between Armand Hammer Boulevard and Moser Road.
The agreement specifies the assessed value of the property during each of the last two years, and for the future until a reassessment occurs. It ends months of legal arguments over how much the units were worth for tax purposes.
An increasing number of businesses in recent years have considered it to their advantage to challenge the assessed value of properties they own on which town, county, and school district taxes are levied.
The district, which usually stands to lose more revenue than the township because its tax rates are significantly higher, occasionally employs special legal counsel for those challenges. The township is usually willing to accept settlements negotiated by the district and rarely hires special counsel, although Lower Pottsgrove Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway has occasionally entered an appearance in such cases on the township’s behalf.
Under the settlement agreement, Lower Pottsgrove will refund $864 to Chestmont as a credit for payment of next year’s property tax bill. The settlement, recommended by Holloway, was unanimously approved by the Board of Commissioners during its Dec. 6 (2010) meeting.
The district Board of School Directors, unanimously and without discussion, during its Nov. 9 meeting authorized its attorneys, Fox Rothschild, to execute a similar agreement. The amount of any credit to Chestmont from the school district was not mentioned in its approved resolution.
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