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McCracken Fiscal Court Meets with PVA Officials

McCracken Fiscal Court Meets with PVA Officials
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By Easton Sanders
Oct. 15, 2019 | MCCRACKEN COUNTY
By Easton Sanders Oct. 15, 2019 | 12:35 AM | MCCRACKEN COUNTY
PVA officials provided an update on property assessments at Monday's McCracken County Fiscal Court meeting.

Thomas Crawford, the Director of the Department of Revenue Office of Property Valuation, and current McCracken County PVA Bill Dunn were in attendance to provide the Fiscal Court with an update on the Omitted Property Tax issue, and to answer any questions about the assessment process.

The meeting put a focus on how to speed up the property assessment process, how to assure that an issue like this doesn't happen again, and whether or not to apply penalties to those that hadn't paid any property taxes.

Crawford stated that the Office of Property Valuation has been working closely with Dunn's office to alleviate some of the pressure by assigning some of their field reps to Dunn's office to help in any way possible. Crawford also shared that their Branch Manager, Martha Tapley, has a meeting scheduled with Dunn soon, to formulate a plan to tackle the challenges the PVA office is facing.

When the topic of penalty fees came up, Crawford told the Fiscal Court that the ability to waive penalty fees has historically been given to the County Attorney, County Clerk, and Sheriff. Crawford stated that he would volunteer his offices legal staff to help the County Attorney work with the Fiscal Court to determine what power the Fiscal Court had over penalty fees, and to come up with guidelines to help determine whether or not penalty fees would be applied in the various assessments.

Eddie Jones made the comment that he didn't feel it would be right to penalize the taxpayers, saying, "It seems to me that this is a situation where no taxpayers should get a penalty, unless governments performed properly. It just doesn't make sense to me to penalize unless there's been a bright line."

When asked for suggestions on how to speed up the process, and how they might prevent a situation like this from happening again in the future, Crawford stated that the most important thing would be more funding.

You can find the full McCracken County Fiscal Court meeting at the link below.

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McCracken County Fiscal Court October 14 Meeting
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