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Tax Assessment

By: Derek Hawkins//February 28, 2017//

Tax Assessment

By: Derek Hawkins//February 28, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. v. City of Milwaukee

Case No.: 2015AP1876

Officials: Brennan, P.J., Kessler and Brash, JJ.

Focus: Tax Assessment

This case presents a narrow issue: whether the City of Milwaukee (the City) properly assessed the billboard permits of Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. (“Clear Channel”) as real property for the years 2009- 2013. Clear Channel brought this excessive assessment action under WIS. STAT. § 74.37 (2011-12) , raising statutory and constitutional challenges to the City’s tax assessments on approximately 850 billboard permits for each year from 2009 through 2011; later the complaint was amended to include the years 2012 and 2013. Clear Channel sought a declaratory judgment that the assessments were invalid and a refund of the taxes paid on the grounds that it was improper to assess the billboard permits as real property.

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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