Summary: A Jan. 24, 2023, executive order by the mayor of Pittsburgh directed the city’s departments of Finance and Law to “begin a review of all tax-exempt
Summary: Allegheny County’s assessed property value for 2025 totals $107.54 billion, a 0.1 percent decline from 2024. The total includes $84.86 billion taxable and $22.68
Summary: On Dec. 3, Allegheny County Council approved operating, capital and grants/special/agency budgets for 2025. Totaling $3.1 billion, the budgets were signed by the chief
Summary: On April 8, Pittsburgh Public Schools filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas to force Allegheny County to carry out a reassessment.
Summary: The Allegheny Institute published five Policy Briefs (Vol. 23, Nos. 9, 14, 20, 25 and 29) on crucial issues and recommendations for Allegheny
Summary: Allegheny County’s current property assessments went into effect Jan. 1, 2013, following a court ruling. Pennsylvania law permits counties to use a base year
Summary: Allegheny County’s assessed property values in 2022 stand at $106.5 billion, with $84.4 billion taxable and $22.1 billion exempt from taxation. These figures are
Allegheny County Council is on the verge of taking up legislation that would instruct the Council’s solicitor to ask the courts to halt the reassessment
Taxpayers in Monroeville, a suburb in the eastern part of Allegheny County and one of the County’s largest communities with more than 28,000 residents, are seeing firsthand the change in post-reassessment tax policy established by Act 71, a law passed by the General Assembly in 2005.
It has been nearly four years since the state Supreme Court struck down Allegheny County’s base year assessments. It might have to wade back into the issue based on an appeal to be filed by Washington County.
