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style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red">PROPERTY OWNERS ALERT #
23</SPAN></U></B><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>Monday</FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">, August 4,
2003</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">TO:
Incline Village/Crystal Bay Property Owners</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">FROM:
Ted Harris, The Village League to Save Incline Assets</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>, Inc</FONT><SPAN
style="COLOR: red">.</SPAN></SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">SUBJECT: "Declaration of
Protest" to the Nevada State Tax Commission.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">Dear
Property Owner,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">By now
every property owner in IV/CB has received our letter, instructions, and the
form letter to assist you in paying your property taxes</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>, “Under Protest”. So far,
we have had hundreds of responses from property owners letting us<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> know</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">
</SPAN><FONT color=#000000>that<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> they are submitting
the “Protest Letter” along with their payment of the property tax. In
case</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"> </SPAN><FONT
color=#000000>you<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> did not receive our
lette</SPAN>r,<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> click on this link to our web
site </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><A
href="http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/"><FONT
color=#0000ff>http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/</FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> then click on the link to “How to Pay Your Taxes
Under Protest”</SPAN></SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">Part of
the reason for our campaign encouraging payment under protest is</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: red"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt"><FONT color=#000000>that,</FONT><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">at our attorneys
presentation before the State Board of Equalization, the District
Attorney</SPAN><FONT color=#000000>,<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> Blaine
Cartilage, in his effort to minimize the concerns of IV/CB
</SPAN>toward</FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: red"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">the extraordinary assessed value increases, stated that
“there were only 123 property owners who filed appeals to the County Board of
Equalization”. Of course</SPAN><FONT color=#000000>, he conveniently
avoided mention of the hundreds of individual property owners who had <SPAN
style="COLOR: black">called the assessors office questioning the huge
increas</SPAN>es in assessed value. His purpose, of course, was to imply that
the uproar about these increases was brought on by only a few rich IV/CB
mal-contents whining about their property tax. Now, with hundreds of
property owners protesting, we think the point will be made that this
statement was purposefully misleading. We need to let Washoe County know that
the vast majority of the citizens in IV/CB are retirees on fixed incomes,
working people who are struggling to pay the property taxes and hundreds, if
not thousands of people whose incomes can not keep pace with these outrageous
tax increases and who are being forced to consider selling their homes.
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<P class=MsoNormal
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color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt">Our
attorney, Norm Azevedo, whose arguments about the illegal appraisal methods
used by the Washoe County assessor, was heard by the Nevada State Tax
Commission on April 3<SUP>rd</SUP> of this year. This was a very important
presentation because the State Tax Commission is the ultimate arbiter of tax
policy and administrative regulations on all tax issues in Nevada. (As a
point of information, Norm was counsel to the State Tax Commission for nine
years) </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">(Click on
this link </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: navy"><A
href="http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/Page2.html">http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/Page2.html</A></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black"> , then click on the link to “Alert
#13” for reference to the meeting announcement and web link to see his entire
power point presentation.) </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt">As
a result of Norm’s presentation, we received a very sympathetic response from
the Nevada State Tax Commission. They indicated that there was
considerable concern about the assessor’s methods and that they would
hold public workshops, after the now ended Legislative session, to hear
in detail the reasons for our challenge to the methods of appraising property
in IV/CB. The hearings are currently scheduled for September
8<SUP>th</SUP> & 9<SUP>th</SUP>. We will advise you as to the time
and place as soon as we know. </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt">In
addition to your tax payment, “Under Protest”, we have prepared an additional
protest petition that we intend to present to the State Tax Commission during
their hearings in September. The purpose of this new petition, that we
are calling the: </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><B><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Elephant">DECLARATION OF PROPERTY TAX
PROTEST</SPAN></U></B><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><B><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Elephant">TO: THE NEVADA STATE TAX
COMMISSION</SPAN></U></B><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">is
the same as paying your property tax, “Under Protest”, and that is to make a
very loud statement to the Tax Commission of our lists of grievances. We
have a team of volunteers who have stood guard at the Post Office and at
Raley’s for four days of last week and we have been able to generate over
1,300 signatures, so far. We plan to continue all this next week in
hopes of getting the number up to 2,500 to 3,000.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Many of our property owners live out of town and have
not had a chance to sign our “Declaration” at the post office, so for the
benefit of all the absentee owners and for locals who have missed us at the
post office, we send this for your signature and for the signature of your
spouse and friends who own property in
IV/CB.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Please, please click on the link: </FONT><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/DclrTaxProtNVSTC.pdf">http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/DclrTaxProtNVSTC.pdf</A></SPAN></SPAN><FONT
color=#000000><FONT size=3> ,</FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black"> print out the Declaration,
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt">print your name, the physical address
of your property, add you signature and mail it back to the address at the
bottom of the form. If you have friends that are property owners, print
out several extra copies for them and or forward this email message to
property owners on your own mailing list. You have nothing to lose and
much to gain. </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt">Please help us and
yourselves on this; we need a signature on this form, from every property
owner in IV/CB.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">Regards
to all,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black">Ted,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Ted Harris, Tax Revolt Committee Chairman <BR>The Village
League to Save Incline Assets, Inc.<BR>(775) 831-3914 </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><A
href="tedgh@nvbell.net"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">tedgh@nvbell.net</SPAN></A></SPAN></FONT></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B>The Village League to Save Incline Assets Board of
Directors</B>:<BR>Maryanne Ingemanson, President -- Ted Harris, Tax Revolt
Committee Chairman --Les Barta, Law Research -- Wayne Fischer, Web-Master --
John Carney, Financial -- Dale Akers, Historian-- Chuck Otto, Public Relations
-- Joyce Anderson-Bock, Personal</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
</SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">Relations</FONT><SPAN
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