I Have A Tax Lien?
“The lesson for people is two-part,” said Strawn. “The first lesson is, if they receive a tax bill that they don’t understand, they should contact the assessor’s office or the tax collector’s office and ask questions. And secondly, they should realize that there is a responsibility for a property tax bill that they receive, so it cannot be ignored.”
Another business owner who was surprised he had a lien — Darrell “Raggs” Evenson, owner of Raggs Rack Room in Eureka — at first couldn’t figure it out when reached by phone Tuesday. Then he said, “Oh, I know what it is. It’s the yearly thing they send me for the [pool] tables. Obviously it’s been overlooked. I’m very surprised that it doesn’t happen more often with all the mail that a small business is bombarded with.”
He said of course he was going to pay it, as did Goforth, the woman who owes taxes on her refrigerators in Petrolia. Although, she said, she thinks it’s “a ridiculous tax.”
“But, yeah, this one was my bad,” she said. “I had no idea and I missed it. So, thanks for your unpleasant call.”
Goforth said she planned to pay the late tax in person this Thursday when she went to Eureka.
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Comment / By justin hobart brown / Dec. 6, 2009, 11:58 p.m.
“A random small sample of some of this year’s tax liens” <–––- I am thinking this little list wasn’t very “random”. Yes…it looks a little ummm “hand-picked” to me………… however, I DO consider it a compliment that the Northcoast Journal would deem it newsworthy to include our name in their “this year’s tax liens” list. 26 out of 700. Rock on NCJournal!!!