Schoenberg v. County of Los Angeles Assessment Appeals Board

Opinion

BOREN, P. J.

This appeal involves the efforts by plaintiff E. Randol Schoenberg to reduce the tax assessment of his residential real property. The issues concern the proper scope of a proceeding by defendant, the Assessment Appeals Board of Los Angeles County (the Appeals Board), and the required procedure for a taxpayer to obtain judicial review of a valuation determination by the Appeals Board.

We find that Schoenberg’s claim that the Appeals Board failed to assess land and improvements separately is without factual foundation, as revealed by the Appeals Board’s written decision…