COEUR d'ALENE - There's one more tax issue Kootenai County has to resolve.

The county has been overpaid nearly $70,000 by the state in tax relief funds, said county Finance Director David McDowell on Monday.

County staff made the discovery last fall, McDowell said, at the same time they uncovered that the county had failed to distribute more than $1.4 million to taxing districts.

"I can't tell you which system is at fault." McDowell said of whether the error occurred on the county or state side. "This is kind of like the last piece of the puzzle, and everything will be square with the state and the taxing districts."

The extra $67,580.54, which the Idaho State Tax Commission distributed to the county in 2007, was intended for the property tax relief, or "circuit breaker," program.

The county commissioners voted unanimously at their public meeting on Monday on a memorandum of agreement with the state to settle the issue. Full story Alecia Warren, Cda Press

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