Complaint sheds light on errors, delays within assessor’s office
COEUR d’ALENE — A complaint to the Idaho State Tax Commission about Kootenai County’s failure to provide “accurate and timely” property value information has shed light on work processes in the assessor’s office that led to a $53 million valuation error and delayed the distribution of tax notices.
Kootenai County Treasurer Steve Matheson submitted the complaint Jan. 4.
“Delays, errors and omissions in the value of information have interrupted the generation of levy rates for all taxing districts in Kootenai County,” Matheson wrote in a letter to the state tax commission. “Accurate and timely value failures are the result of systemic control weaknesses. As a result, the county is at risk of being held negligent when ensuring the uniformity and equity in property value assessments throughout Kootenai County.”
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