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Maryland's Dept. of Assessment and Taxation Web Site
Paying taxes is never pleasant,
but this web site makes the property tax as understandable and
painless as possible.
Lots of useful information and links
for Maryland taxpayers. You can
even appeal your assessment online.
Maryland's real estate and assessment database
Maryland allows all of its citizens to
search its property tax and
land ownership database via the web. A good example
of what government can do for its citizens when it wants to.
Pittsburgh's Office of Property Assessments
Pittsburgh's equivalent of Philadelphia's BRT.
This is the agency which sets property tax assessments for Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh's Real Estate and Property Tax Database
Pittsburgh's web site allows citizens to look up real estate and
property tax online. Pittsburgh allows
its citizens to search for property by owner name.
It seems like other
cities in Pennsylvania lead the way
and Philadelphia simply follows.
A short history of Pittsburgh's County Wide Revaluation
I recently asked one of my sources when
Philadelphia last did a county wide
reassessment, he laughed. Here's an
account of what happened in Pittsburgh which
went through the process in response to a taxpayer suit.