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  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">TO:  All Incline Village & 
  Crystal Bay Property Owners</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></P>
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  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">FROM:  Ted Harris, Nevada Property 
  Tax Revolt</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></P>
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  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">SUBJECT:  State Board of 
  Equalization Hearings</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></P>
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  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">For many of you who are on our E-mail 
  mailing list but do not live in town below is an article in today's Bonanza 
  about the upcoming hearings with the State Board of Equalization on 
  appeals by Incline Village and Crystal Bay property owners. For all the 
  local folks, if you have the time, we urge you to attend these hearings 
   (Location and time in the article below).  We suspect, that like 
  the County Board of Equalization, the State Board is not likely to grant 
  reductions in "Taxable Value" based on the issues of view classifications, 
  time value adjustments, or tear-downs.  Our attorney, Norm Azevedo, will 
  again, on behalf of all those who have appealed, argue these points with the 
  goal of disqualifylng these arbitrary methods of appraisiing our 
  properties.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></P>
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  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">We will update and report to you upon the 
  conclusion of these hearings which are taking place Monday and 
  Tuesday.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></P>
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  Sub-Committee Chairman<BR>The Village League to Save Incline Assets<BR>(775) 
  831-3914<BR><A 
  href="mailto:tedgh@nvbell.net">tedgh@nvbell.net</A></SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">State equalization board to hear local 
                  tax protests</SPAN></FONT></P>
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                        href="mailto:radair@tahoebonanza.com"><SPAN 
                        class=name>By Rick Adair, Bonanza Staff 
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                  style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">A group of 89 Incline Village and 
                  Crystal Bay taxpayers returns to the Nevada Board of 
                  Equalization early next week to appeal Washoe County property 
                  assessments upheld earlier this year by the county board of 
                  equalization.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  class=body>Their cases are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday in 
                  Carson City, and most will be represented by tax attorneys 
                  Norm Azevedo and Elaine Guenaga.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  class=body>Last May, the state board established ground rules 
                  for the hearings when it rejected the attorneys' claim that 
                  the Washoe County Assessor's Office used a flawed property 
                  valuation process.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=body>The state 
                  board also allowed the assessor to appeal the county board's 
                  property value cuts in 24 local cases, and refused to hear 43 
                  appeals that didn't first go through the county 
                  board.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=body>Azevedo and Guenaga have 
                  been seeking property tax relief for their clients since 
                  March. They claim that some of the appraisal procedures used 
                  at Tahoe are flawed, and led to this year's sharp 30 percent 
                  average increase of Incline Village and Crystal Bay property 
                  taxes that in past years rose no more than 11 
                  percent.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=body>Key problems, they 
                  say, lie with the system that increases property values based 
                  on the quality of a home's lake view, and with the faulty 
                  application of two methods used to estimate property values 
                  when there are few comparable sales.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  class=body>One of the estimation methods deems a property with 
                  structures slated for teardown to be a vacant lot, and the 
                  other uses past property values to judge current property 
                  values.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=body>But the county defends 
                  the view system and estimation methods, and says the appeal 
                  process allows individual mistakes to be 
                  addressed.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=body>In addition to the 
                  assessment appeals, other local tax opposition comes from The 
                  Village League to Save Incline Assets, which includes many of 
                  Azevedo and Guenaga's clients.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  class=body>The league recently mailed protest forms to all 
                  area taxpayers for inclusion with county tax bills, which are 
                  due Monday, and is circulating petitions to be presented to 
                  the state equalization board protesting the county's appraisal 
                  methods.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=body>In comments earlier 
                  this week, league president Maryanne Ingemanson said the group 
                  intends to sue the county for relief if the state board rules 
                  against them, and has asked the law firm Woodburn and Wedge to 
                  join Azevedo and Guenaga in the litigation. In June, the firm 
                  foiled an attempt to open deed-restricted access to Incline 
                  Village General Improvement District's Incline and Burnt Cedar 
                  beaches.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=body>The state equalization 
                  board hearings start at 8 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday in Room 
                  401 of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, 401 S. Carson St., 
                  Carson City, Nev. For more information, call board secretary 
                  Charles Chinnock at (775) 687-4820.</SPAN></P>
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