Rankin To Talk About Assessment Appeals

Tax watchdog Ron Rankin and his property owners group will teach interested residents how to appeal their property assessments at a special meeting tonight.

Rankin, a Republican candidate for Kootenai County commissioner and the author of a 1 percent initiative capping property taxes, will host a class on appeals at 7 p.m. at City Hall in Post Falls.

“We don’t expect as many as last year, but there are still a lot of people out there needing help,” he said.

Last year, a few hundred people showed up at a similar coaching session. More than 900 actually filed assessment appeals that year.

This year, about 250 people have picked up a form needed for an appeal. Rankin said the form is convoluted and difficult to understand.

“The way it’s designed it really spooks a person and makes them say ‘Ah, I don’t want to do it,”’ Rankin said.

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