West Fork to balance 3 years of overtaxing
Levy was mistakenly set 33 cents higher than state-approved amount
West Fork school board members approved a plan last week to pay back the nearly $340,000 that was mistakenly collected from district taxpayers during the last three budget years.
Due to an error in the Department of Management database, the district had been assessing taxpayers $1 per $1,000 of property valuation for the Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL), 33 cents higher than the state-dictated 67 cents.
“We certainly did not want to tax beyond our authority,” Superintendent Darrin Strike said. “And we wanted to fix it.”
Read the full article in the November 26 edition of the papers.
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