TURNER v. TOKAI FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

No. 2D99-1857.

767 So.2d 494 (2000)

Rob TURNER, as Hillsborough County Property Appraiser; and Larry Fuchs, as Executive Director of the Florida Department of Revenue, Appellants, v. TOKAI FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., d/b/a Master Lease, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 24, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Shepherd, General Counsel, Tampa, for Appellant Rob Turner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Michael R. Kercher and Mark T. Aliff, Assistant Attorneys General, Tallahassee, for Appellant Larry Fuchs.

Stanley H. Beck, Hallandale, and Evan J. Langbein of Langbein & Langbein, P.A., Aventura, for Appellee.

Gaylord A. Wood, Jr., and B. Jordan Stuart of Wood & Stuart, P.A., New Smyrna Beach, for William Markham and H.W. "Bill" Suber, Amici Curiae.

Benjamin K. Phipps, Tallahassee, for Florida Association of Property Tax Professionals and Florida Taxpayers' Coalition, Amici Curiae.

Steven L. Brannock, Robert E.V. Kelly, Jr., and David C. Borucke of Holland & Knight LLP, Tampa, for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Amicus Curiae.


PARKER, Acting Chief Judge.

Rob Turner, as Hillsborough County Property Appraiser, and Larry Fuchs, as Executive Director of the Florida Department of Revenue (collectively Turner), challenge the trial court's order requiring Turner to deduct certain costs of sale from the market value of tangible personal property when assessing it for ad valorem tax purposes, and requiring Turner to apply that deduction to Tokai Financial Services, Inc.'s (Tokai) 1997 tax assessment...

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