CONSULTING

Work With Experts

PTCR is one of the most comprehensive and experienced state and local tax consulting firms in our industry. PTCR consultants undergo yearly continuing education to make sure our expertise in understanding statutory requirements is always up to date. Combined we have almost 70 years of experience working in every state that assess personal property. We have clients with needs from 1 return to more than 5,000 returns, and from being in 1 state to being in all 40 states that tax personal property in the US. We also do "value work" on complex personal property types, exemption work, heavy equipment filings, and gross receipts filings.

Our people are Senior Property Tax Professionals will help you to; Find those missed opportunities for cost reductions, Develop a proactive tax management program to guide you through compliance while saving tax dollars, and Reduce your state and local tax burden in effect increasing the profitability and sustainability of your business

STRATEGIC PLANNING

Achieve Your Goals

Our Senior Tax Professionals examine your accounts each year to determine if a property has been over-assessed and conduct a full-scale evaluation of the issues specific to your situation prior to the personal property compliance process. Once identified, these specific issues are integrated with our expertise in property tax issues and regional personal property filing requirements to determine how to most effectively challenge your values and minimize your tax liability.

SERVICES

Minimize Your Tax Burden

PTCR offers multiple-location property owners a complete range of services designed to minimize their personal property and real estate tax liability. We can offer you basic consulting services all the way to a full turn-key tax department. Take the hasel and headache out of doing it in house, and free up your employees on other aspects of their jobs. We can handle the entire process and even pay the checks directly to the assessing jurisdictions.

These services provide numerous benefits and generally include the following:

***Fixed-Asset Schedules & Inventory Valuation***
-Identifying obsolete and phantom assets
- Identifying nontaxable and taxable assets for reclassification.
- Taking advantage of the most favorable, justifiable depreciation schedules.
- Knowledge of industry-specific trends to isolate specific value issues.
- Determining inventory eligibility for special assessments, exemptions, or value adjustments.

***Valuation Process***
- Guaranteed adherence to various state filing deadlines and requirements.
- Monitoring of rendered values to proposed assessed values.
- Filing required appeals with assessing authorities, if applicable.

***Savings & Support***
- Preparing assessment-based reports as a tool for adjustment of accruals.
- First year tax savings that often carry over to subsequent years.
- Customizable reports to support tax planning.
- Proposing property-tax savings strategies to assure minimum tax liability in the future.
- Overall increased profitability.

Property Tax Compliance Resources ability to implement the above stated processes and facilitate interactions between your company and taxing authorities ultimately changes how the assessing authorities value your assets.