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June 11, 2024
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Pennsylvania real estate taxes are usually very large line items on any corporate balance sheet. Accordingly, you should be reviewing your assessed value(s) on an annual basis if you are a Pennsylvania commercial or industrial property owner or a lessee of a commercial or industrial property that pays the property taxes as part of your lease. A reduction in your property’s assessed value will have substantial impacts on your balance sheet for many years because Pennsylvania counties don’t perform periodic county-wide reassessments. Thus, if you feel your assessed value(s) are too high, you must timely file an annual assessment appeal in the county that the property is located.

Unfortunately, there is no set annual assessment appeal deadline for all 67 counties in Pennsylvania. Every county has its own annual assessment appeal deadline.

The annual assessment appeal deadline of August 1, 2024 for assessed values effective for tax year January 1, 2025 is quickly approaching for the following Pennsylvania Counties:

Adams, Blair, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Chester, Clarion, Crawford, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Fayette, Franklin, Indiana, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Susquehanna, Westmoreland and York.

The annual assessment appeal deadline of September 1, 2024 for assessed values effective for tax year January 1, 2025 is on the horizon for the following Pennsylvania Counties:

Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Bradford, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Elk, Forest, Fulton, Greene, Huntington, Jefferson, Juniata, Lebanon, Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder, Somerset, Sullivan, Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren, Washington and Wayne.

There are a few oddball counties that have to be different and thus the annual assessment appeal deadline for Berks County is August 15, 2024 and Wyoming County is usually August 31, but because this year August 31 falls on a Saturday, you will have until September 2, 2024 to file an annual assessment appeal.  Philadelphia County is not a specific date, but instead the annual appeal deadline is the first Monday in October, which is the 7th this year.

Each county has its own separate set of local rules pertaining to annual assessment appeals that need to be navigated in order to successfully file an annual assessment appeal.  If you own or lease commercial or industrial properties in Pennsylvania, please make sure that you are aware of these appeal deadlines. Additionally, if you are not sure if you should file an appeal on your property, please contact Paul Morcom at 717-237-5364 or any member of the McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC SALT team to determine if an appeal is warranted for tax year 2025.