11.   Most lawyers who specialize in challenging tax assessments work primarily for owners of commercial and industrial property, where the issues are complex and the financial stakes great.

12.   Share challenged the tax assessment.

13.   Tax assessments are not final until the final day of the season.

14.   Tax experts say that historically, those challenging tax assessments tend to be affluent homeowners and businesses.

15.   The battle over tax assessments has several parallels to the struggle over the Board of Supervisors.

16.   The California Manufacturers Association proposes letting businesses that appeal tax assessments post a bond rather than pay the full amount in dispute.

17.   The ruling involves a lawsuit filed by General Motors over the tax assessment on its auto assembly plant in Linden.

18.   The suit puts a spotlight on the statistical alchemy involved in converting theoretical assumptions about value into concrete tax assessments.

19.   Yet the Turtle Lake Club is fighting a school tax assessment, and schools will have to drastically retrench if the club wins.

20.   Der Spiegel magazine said Berlin tax authorities have made a mistake in the tax assessment and have decided to reduce it by half.