Except in the case of a taxpayer fraudulently or willfully attempting to evade the tax, any escape assessment shall be made and the taxpayer notified thereof within four years after August 1 of the year in which the property escaped assessment.
An escaped assessment/tax bill may be the result of an event that causes a reappraisal but has not been reported to the Assessor's Office. An example of such an event would be construction done without a building permit or an unrecorded transfer of ownership.
An "escape assessment" is a correction to a property's assessed value on the local property tax roll. This correction is made because the Assessor's Office discovered property or a taxable event that should have been assessed but was not.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — The tax roll in Riverside County has risen by 5.4% since last year, ing to the Auditor-Controller's Office.
Previously, the partition law in California permitted any co-owner of a property to force a sale, often to the detriment of other owners. The new amendments, however, introduce a right of first refusal.
How to File a Partition Action in California Step 1: Determine Whether You Have Standing to File. Step 2: Hire an Experienced Real Estate Attorney. Step 3: Prepare the Necessary Documents. Step 4: Serve Notice to Other Co-owners. Step 5: Court Proceedings and Mediation. Step 6: Partition by Sale or Partition in Kind.
A partition action is filed in the Court by submitting a “complaint” that complies with all of the requirements of the Code of Civil Procedure. In California, almost all of the partition actions are filed by attorneys on behalf of parties because there are a number of technical legal requirements for filing a lawsuit.