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Property tax dispute ends in Incline, Crystal Bay residents’ favor


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By Brian Duggan, Reno Gazette-Journal

The Nevada Supreme Court ended a nine-year property tax dispute between 8,700 North Lake Tahoe residents and Washoe County on Thursday, saying homeowners in Incline Village and Crystal Bay are due a property tax refund.

While estimates of the refund came out to about $13 million in 2009, with interest county officials are now estimating they could owe the residents up to $40 million, impacting the Washoe County School District, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District, Incline Village General Improvement District and the state.

The high court on Thursday knocked down the county’s appeal of a 2009 district court decision that agreed with a series of previous tax panel decisions hat said the 8,700 residents paid too much in property taxes in 2006-07 and should have paid at 2002-03 levels.

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  1. tahoeadvocate says - Posted: July 8, 2011

    We talk about “the county” as if it is some remote entity. People made this decision which has now cost taxpayers an additional $27M. Let’s see the names of our employee(s) in the county who cost us this money. Will there be repercussions to them like there would be in private industry?