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Trahan & Williams, LLC provides a variety of property tax services that improve a client's profitability by reducing short-term and long-term tax liabilities on real estate, personal property (fixtures, equipment, and machinery) and inventory (raw materials and finished product).

Some of these services include:

Owners:

• Protesting and negotiating with property tax officials over property and business taxes
• Equal and Uniform Studies
• Providing Income, Sales Comparison, and Cost Approach analyses for property tax appraisals
• Consulting regarding expert witness testimony, attorney selection and trial preparation
• Filing various types of exemptions  
• Segregated Cost Studies
• Location Incentives Analysis for relocations and / or expansions

Tenants:

• Protesting and negotiating with property tax officials over property and business taxes
• Filing various types of exemptions
• Providing on-going consulting services on litigation over property and business taxes
• Preparing analysis of assets to determine appropriate depreciation schedule for property tax purposes and identifying those assets not subject to taxation.

Buyers / Sellers / Underwriters

• Developing client strategies to avoid or mitigate real estate and business tax liabilities
• Providing property tax projections in acquisitions and mortgage underwriting
• Estimating roll-back taxes when agricultural exemptions are being removed from a property as a result of a change of use.
• Equal and Uniform Studies