Falling home prices and rising property-tax assessments are fueling a grass-roots tax rebellion reports the Wall Street Journal. From coastal Florida to the shores of Hawaii, homeowners are lodging record numbers of appeals, fighting against rising assessments that are, in many cases, pushing up annual tax payments significantly.

Residents of Lee County, Fla., filed nearly 2,900 appeals for the 2006 tax year, more than triple the previous year, after assessments increased by an average of 39%. In Erie County, Ohio, 732 property owners appealed their recent assessments, where typically there are fewer than 200 appeals.

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