NPTR: Alert 187: Terrific Bonanza News Coverage

[Wayne Fischer]

TERRIFIC BONANZA NEWS COVERAGE

ALERT: #187
DATE: November 5, 2008
TO: Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Owners
FROM: Village League Tax Revolt Committee

Dear Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Tax Protesters,

The following Editorial in today’s Bonanza provides an excellent summary and a different way of reporting on our third Supreme Court ruling last week.

Also in today’s Bonanza, were two additional well written articles about last week’s Supreme Court ruling.  If you have not read these articles in the paper today, you can download the articles by clicking on the following two links.

Officials weigh in on Supreme Court Order

www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org/08/Bonanza-081105a.pdf


In their words: Village League sounds off
www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org/08/Bonanza-081105b.pdf

Best Regards,
Wayne Fischer, Webmaster
Nevada Property Tax Revolt Web
www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org



Finally the big one
Bonanza Editorial Column, page 81, November 5, 2008, www.TahoeBonanza.com

editorial

Thursday’s Nevada Supreme Court decision is the big one — it’s the one big decision that Maryanne Ingemanson and the Village League to Save Incline Assets have talked about for six years, the big one that should shed some light at the end of a very convoluted tunnel.

And while that tunnel still very well could be six more years from reaching a bright fruition, for the first time since this whole thing began, there’s some much-deserved solace settling into this community.

That big breeze of wind you just saw gushing by? That’s a huge sigh of relief from Ingemanson, the other Village League members and other dedicated residents who have followed the tax revolt from the beginning.

But this does not — and should not — stop with those select few people.

Thursday’s ruling from the Supreme Court is the first major decision in the six-year revolt that affects the entire community.

Sure past Supreme Court decisions have come down — most notably the one in late July (the “Barta decision”) that refunded 38 parcel holders’ taxes back to the 2002-2003 assessed values — but that only dealt with 38 people.

Thursday’s decision affects some 9,000 parcel holders in Incline Village and Crystal Bay. That’s everybody in this community, folks.

What could it mean? It could mean that Washoe County will be responsible for dividing as much as $12 million among the 9,000 local parcel holders, rolling back their assessed property values from 2006-2007 to the 2002-2003 taxation values.

A few dominoes have to fall before that becomes a reality, as the case still needs to be heard before the State Board of Equalization, and while the board’s vote should be obvious, it never can be taken for granted.

Furthermore, if the state board does rule that the county shall roll back those values, the county still holds the option of appealing that decision.

So Thursday’s decision by no means indicates 9,000 people will receive a refund soon — but it does mean that this whole community is on board, and for such a strong decision to come down from the State Supreme Court should only mean good things for the other cases out there that affect this whole community, not just a group of petitioners.

After the Barta decision, the Bonanza wrote an editorial and asked this question, in reference to a large number of cases still pending regarding this issue: “How many individual opinions will it take to rectify this obvious problem?”

Well Thursday’s opinion should be the first step. 

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Village League to Save Incline Assets Board Members:
- Maryanne Ingemanson, President
- Dale Akers, Historian
- Les Barta, Law Research
- John Carney, Analyst
- Wayne Fischer, Webmaster
- Ted Harris, Tax Revolt Committee Chairman
- Todd Lowe, Financial,
- Chuck Otto, Public Relations 


Village League to Save Incline Assets, Inc.
Non-Profit Corporation - FEIN 88-0399029
1165 Vivian Lane, Incline Village, NV 89451
Phone: 775-831-4011, Fax 775-831-0325
www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org

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