Nonattorney Representatives in Appeals of Property Owners in residential Tax Assessment Cases

Nonattorney Representatives in Appeals of Property Owners in residential Tax Assessment Cases
Tax-reduction company can use non-attorney employees to represent property owners in the appeal of residential tax assessments in the Small Claims Assessment Review Part (SCAR). A referee who once hired this company does not have to recuse himself when the company appears before him on other cases after his own case is over. New York Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinion 08-12 2008 WL 8113228 (March 13 2008).