New York Property Tax Representative (New York City - Only)
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Representative Bio Joel R. Marcus is a graduate of Hofstra Law School. He was an Assistant Corporation Counsel at the Certiorari and Condemnation Division of the New York City Law Department, from 1975 to 1980. From 1980 to 1990, he was in charge of the Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Department at the law firm of Shea & Gould, where he became a partner in 1986. He is a former President of the New York City Real Estate Tax Review Bar Association and a member of Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Committee of The Association of the Bar of The City of New York. From 1990 to 2005 Mr. Marcus was a partner at Pottish Freyberg Marcus & Velazquez, LLP. He is a lecturer at the New York State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program and a member of the property tax committee of the Real Estate Board of New York. He is also published regularly in real estate industry magazines. Mr. Marcus won a decision at trial in 1990 involving One New York Plaza which resulted in a $42,000,000 real estate tax refund. This groundbreaking case established acceptance of asbestos contamination as a basis for tax reduction and still stands as the largest Court ordered award in New York City. |
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Robert M. Pollack is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Fordham Law School. Mr. Pollack began his career in real estate taxation as an appraiser, preparing valuation studies for use in tax certiorari trials. He is a former Senior Assessor for the New York City Department of Finance, where he worked closely with the New York City Tax Commission. Since 1987 Mr. Pollack's prior firm, Robert M. Pollack, P.C., has represented major real estate owners and developers in real estate tax matters in New York City. Mr. Pollack has been successful in establishing many precedents in property tax exemption and assessment policies for complex development projects. |
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Firm Information Marcus & Pollack LLP is a law firm whose principal areas of concentration involve Real Estate Tax Review and Litigation (Tax Certiorari), commercial and residential tax exemptions and abatement's, Condemnation, tax planning and other areas of Municipal and State law. We represent many of the leading and prominent real estate owners and developers in the New York Metropolitan area. Our firm has extensive background and expertise in the rules, regulations and procedures of New York State, New York City and local Counties governing property taxes. We are familiar with the practice, policies and legal precedents and the procedures followed by various municipal departments and agencies. Our clients are represented throughout the entire tax appeal process, including the protest and appeal of real estate property tax assessments, valuation disputes, commercial and residential tax exemptions and abatement's, classification issues and other errors or corrections in taxes. This practice includes trial at the New York State Supreme Court as well as review by the appellate courts. Marcus & Pollack LLP is a founding member of the American Property Tax Counsel, which is the National Affiliation of Property Tax Attorneys. |
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Location633 3rd Ave
New York New York, 10017
United States
American Property Tax Counsel
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