On May 30, 2025, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed a Commonwealth Court decision that Pottstown Hospital, LLC (“Hospital”) did not qualify as an institution of purely public charity entitled to real property tax exemption.

In 2023, the Commonwealth Court had held in a group of four related decisions — Pottstown School District v. Montgomery County

In CCP Berks, LLC v. Berks Cnty. Bd. of Assessment et al., 562-64, 570, & 595 C.D. 2024 (Pa. Cmwlth Ct.  Apr. 1, 2025), in a 2-1 decision, Commonwealth Court effectively declared that a party initiating a real estate tax appeal is unable to withdraw the appeal unless all parties agree.  In 2020, property

In an unreported panel decision of Armstrong Township v. Lycoming County Board of Assessment Appeals and Choice FuelCorp, Inc., 140 C.D. 2022 (Pa. Cmwlth. Ct. Apr. 5, 2024), the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed the trial court’s order that had enforced a settlement agreement between Armstrong Township (the “Township”) and Choice FuelCorp, Inc. (“Choice”).

Pennsylvania real estate taxes are usually very large line items on any corporate balance sheet. Accordingly, you should be reviewing your assessed value(s) on an annual basis if you are a Pennsylvania commercial or industrial property owner or a lessee of a commercial or industrial property that pays the property taxes as part of your

In Mixell v. Cumberland County Board of Assessment Appeals, 313 A.3d 330 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2024), the Commonwealth Court held that the Board of Assessment Appeals (“Board”) had failed to show proof of mailing sufficient to establish that a property owner had received hearing notices in her property tax appeal.

The property owner had

Now that the 2024 tax year August 1 annual assessment appeal filing deadline has passed for 26 counties in Pennsylvania, the appeal deadlines for the remaining 41 counties are as follows:

August 15

Berks

August 31

Wyoming

September 1

ARMSTRONG, BEDFORD, BRADFORD, CAMERON, CARBON, CENTRE, CLEARFIELD, CLINTON, COLUMBIA, CUMBERLAND, ELK, FOREST, FULTON, GREENE, HUNTINGDON, JEFFERSON

On February 10, 2023, in a much-anticipated group of Opinions, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court (“Court”) held that four separate Tower Health hospitals (one in Montgomery County and three in Chester County) did not qualify as institutions of purely public charity and thus, the hospitals were not entitled to real property tax exemptions for the 2018