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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>Tax Revolt and Reform
Update<br><br>
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ALERT: #116<br>
DATE: January 8, 2007<br>
TO: Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Owners<br>
FROM: Village League Tax Revolt Committee<br><br>
<b>Dear Fellow Taxpayers,<br><br>
</b>A very sincere thank you to all of you who promptly sent in your
Petitions for Review and to those of you who generously anticipated our
need, and sent contributions as well.<br><br>
We are frantically organizing all of the data for presentation to the
office of the Washoe County Assessor, and anticipate that we will be
represented by Attorney Suellen Fulstone in our hearings before the
County Board of Equalization. <br><br>
We were hopeful that our Petition for Reconsideration before the Nevada
Tax Commission last Friday would be fruitful and that we would not need
to go forward. But once again, we will need to present our appeals
to the CBOE (Washoe County Board of Equalization). <br><br>
The Nevada Tax Commission denied our Petition on procedural grounds, not
on factual grounds. (In other words – more of the same.) The
Commission stated that because THEY hadn't scheduled the hearing within
the 30 day period after their original decision and that it was
automatically denied. <br><br>
We had specifically requested, with the timely filing of our Petition on
November 16th, that a special hearing be called to satisfy that
requirement, even telephonically. <br><br>
However Chairman Sheets said that because it was the “holiday season”, he
wouldn't be able to schedule any hearing until January 5, which of course
exceeded the time-line. <br><br>
Those of you who have sent in the much needed contributions will be
receiving a personal letter for your IRS donation files. Normally,
we are able to get these acknowledgements to you rather promptly and will
do our best to get your letters out as quickly as we possibly can.
Organizing all of the information for the appeals to the Washoe County
Board of Equalization is an enormous task which is consuming almost all
of my time at the moment.<br><br>
Our appreciation goes out to all of you for your support and cooperation,
without which there would be no hope of final success. <br><br>
We will be sending Alerts to keep you apprised of each step on our way to
final victory. Keep the faith!!!<br><br>
Sincerely,<br><br>
<font face="Berylium">Maryanne Ingemanson<br><br>
</font>Maryanne Ingemanson, President<br>
Village League to Save Incline Assets, Inc.<br>
<a href="http://www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org<br>
</a>mingemanson@charter.net<br><br>
PS. If you still want to file an appeal on your recent property tax
appraisal increase, please read our last alert, #115, which can be found
at:
<a href="http://www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/a1xx/Alert115.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/a1xx/Alert115.html</a>. Please
have these in the mail to us by this Wednesday. Thanks.<br><br>
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