Program Information
The Ritz, New Orleans
March 13 – 14, 2025
The 2025 ABA-IPT Advanced Property Tax Seminar features topics such as property tax developments, valuation issues, economic obsolescence, repurposing and adaptive reuse, and renewable energy property valuation. The seminar aims to provide tax professionals with insights and strategies for managing property tax matters, including ethical considerations and tactical preparation for property tax litigation.
Learning Objectives
After attending the session, attendees will be able to:
- Explain economic obsolescence and differentiate it from other types of obsolescence
- Identify economic obsolescence in a particular property or class of properties
- Apply appraisal techniques to quantify economic obsolescence
- Present proofs to increase the ability to win the often elusive economic obsolescence deduction
- Address case law related to economic obsolescence
Speaking Session
It’s Really Real – Identifying, Quantifying and Proving Economic Obsolescences
Thursday, March 13 | 2:00 – 3:10 PM
Nathan Fineman, Managing Director, DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc.
Kathy G. Spletter, ASA, Stancil & Co.
J. Kieran Jennings, Esq., CMI, CRE, Siegel Jennings Co., LPA
Michele M. Whittington, Esq. of Morgan, Pottinger, McGarvey (speaker/moderator)
Jeffrey D. Gordon, Esq. of Archer & Greiner, P.C. (speaker/moderator)
Join this esteemed panel with extensive backgrounds on economic obsolescence. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of economic obsolescence and learn accepted appraisal techniques to prove it. The discussion will include pointers to address reticence from fact-finders and decision-makers to accept economic obsolescence deductions.