Unlocking Value in Your Real Estate Portfolio.
Your Property, Our Priority
Unlocking Value in Your Real Estate Portfolio.
Your Property, Our Priority
The Power of Experience
The Law Firm of Jerrold F. Janata is a leading multi-state property tax assessment appeal law firm with over 50 years of continuous experience representing individuals to Fortune 500 companies. Whether its a tax assessment appeal for an individual property, a multi-state portfolio of properties, a retail building, an office building, industrial property, golf course, fiber optic cable – or anything in between – The Law Firm of J.F. Janata is the uncompromising choice in Property Tax Appeal legal representation.
Meet Our Attorneys
Jerrold F. Janata, Esq
Jerrold F. Janata, Esq., has represented corporate taxpayers throughout the country for 50 years. He has litigated numerous complex and high profile cases during this time, and his personal efforts have resulted in many millions of dollars in tax savings for his clients.
Formerly an appraiser and tax attorney for F.W. Woolworth Company, Mr. Janata earned a B.A. degree from Queens College of the City University of New York; an M.B.A. degree in finance from Iona College; and a J.D. Degree from Fordham University School of Law. Mr. Janata is a member of the American Society of Appraisers and a licensed appraiser in New Jersey and Tennessee. Mr. Janata has testified and been qualified as an expert appraiser on both Real Estate and Machinery and Equipment before a numerous State and Local Tax Appeal Boards, State Tax Commissions and Courts in the United States and Canada. Mr. Janata heads the New York and Pennsylvania Property Tax Appeal Practice.
Mr. Janata’s book, Property tax Manual: Strategies and Techniques for Reduction and Control was published by Prentice-Hall in 1979. He also wrote and edited three editions of Property Taxation and the first edition of Sales and Use Taxation, the textbooks of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT). He has written numerous articles on property taxation for several professional publications and is a member of the taxation editorial board of the Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives.
Areas of Practice
- Real Property Tax Litigation
- Personal Property Tax Litigation
- Condemnation Litigation
- Landlord Real Estate Tax Pro Rata Share Reverse Audits
Bar Admission(s)
- New York
- Pennsylvania
Licenses
- New Jersey Licensed Appraiser
- Tennessee Licensed Appraiser Share Reverse Audits
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Taxation Editorial Board of the Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives
- Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT)
- Incentives and Advisory Board and Faculty of the Multistate Tax Institute of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
- American Society of Appraisers; ASA, Accredited Appraiser – Real Property Urban
- National Tax Association – Past Chairman, Real Estate Tax Subcommittee
- New York State Bar Association – Past Chairman, Tax Subcommittee, Equalization Legislation
- International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) Lifetime Member
- New York State Assessor’s Association
Meet Our Attorneys
Robert Cummins, Esq.
Bar Admission(s)
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
Education
St. Thomas University – Miami JD/MBA
New York University – New York City BS
Meet Our Attorneys
Henry LaCap, Esq., Of Counsel
Henry LaCap, Esq., has been exclusively engaged in property tax related litigation for over 23 years. He has successfully tried or negotiated literally thousands of property tax appeals on a wide range of properties, from nursing homes to golf courses, fiber optic cable to printing presses, resulting in millions of dollars of refunds and tax savings for Janata & Associate's clients.
Mr. LaCap is a former Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York practicing in the New York Corporation Counsel’s Office’s Real Property Tax and Condemnation Division. Since then, Mr. Lacap has exclusively represented corporate taxpayers in their property tax appeals prosecuting cases in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Tax Court of New Jersey, Michigan Tax Tribunal, Minnesota Tax Court, and the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas.
Mr. LaCap has proven to be successful tax appeal trial attorney with an in depth knowledge of appraisal valuation methodology attaining numerous tax appeal trial wins. He is also an effective appellate attorney successfully arguing property tax cases before the Appellate Division of the State of New York, and the New York Court of Appeals (New York’s highest court)
Mr. LaCap is a graduate of Manhattan College and a Dean’s List ranking graduate of Pace University School of Law and a contributing author of the Journal of Property Tax Management.
Mr. LCcap is a member of the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bars, and prosecutes tax appeals in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota.
Contact email: hlacap@janatalaw.com
Areas of Practice
- Real Property Tax Litigation
- Personal Property Tax Litigation
- Condemnation Litigation
- Tax Incentives
Bar Admission(s)
- New York – 1996
- New Jersey – 1996
- Pennsylvania – 2011
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Institute for Professionals in Taxation
- Westchester County Tax Certiorari Bar
Articles/Speaking Engagements
- “The Dark Store Tax Assessment Loophole”, Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Northern New Jersey Chapter, Guest Speaker, May 6, 2016, Sheraton, Mahwah NJ.
- “Is New York’s Assessment Freeze Constitutional?” Journal of Property Valuation and Taxation, September 2002, Copyright, Aspen Publishers.