Dear Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Owners,

Maryanne and I have received multiple emails and phone calls asking which properties were included in the group of 1,000 that received reduced property tax assessments for this tax year, 2007/2008. The assessment amount multiplied by the tax rate equals the amount of your property taxes for this year.

It is an extremely time consuming effort to look up each and every one of these requests. The following information instructs you how to find this information on your own property.

Everyone had an opportunity to file a petition to appeal your 2007/2008 property tax assessment valuation. Alert #115 was sent by the Village League on January 1st, with very specific instructions as to how to file such a timely petition. To re-read this Alert please visit www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/a1xx/Alert115.html

The Village League delivered all the petitions that were received timely and filed them as a group on January 16th at the office of the Washoe County Assessor. The hearing Agenda for the Washoe County Board of Equalization on February 16th lists the names of all the taxpayers who filled a petition on time. To see this Agenda, please visit the following page, www.co.washoe.nv.us/clerks/board_agendas.php and then click on the Board of Equalization’s February 16th agenda (right hand column, pdf symbol).

As you scroll though the Agenda you can look for the APN of your property to see whether it was included in the consolidated petition.

Now for the fun part

To appreciate all the work that the Village League volunteers do for you behind the scenes, please visit the following page for the minutes of the above hearing: www.washoecounty.us/clerks/board_minutes.php

The Washoe County Website makes the next steps difficult.

1. Now click on the Board of Equalization link
   
2. Select Year = 2007 and then click on GO
   
3. Now, click on the February 16th BOE minutes

You will now download pages 31 through 115 page of the WC Board of Equalization 2007 Hearing’s minutes. Scroll to the minutes of our group’s Petition which begin on page 40 and end on page 87. Starting On page 88 the properties that received a roll back of the land valuation to 2002/2003 for the 2007/2008 tax years are re-listed.

Property Tax Valuation is also on the Washoe County Website

You can also go directly to the Washoe County Assessor’s webpage to see the history of your property tax valuations. Just visit www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/pages/WCPropInfo.html and follow the instructions.

Once you get to your property’s page, click on the “Click here for additional assessment history” link. Look at the land valuation column to see how your land assessment valuation has changed since 1997

Attorney Fees

The Village League has incurred huge attorney fees just to fight the rollback of our land valuation for the 2007/2008 tax year to 2002/2003 for the 1,000 homeowners who filed their petitions on time. Our attorneys attended 3 full days of Washoe County Board of Equalization hearings in addition to doing all of the research and preparation that was needed in anticipation of the hearings. This is one of the reasons that the Village League continues to need donations to support our Property Tax Revolt

What about the Properties who did not get a Rollback?

The Village League is still fighting that equalization cause for all of you through the court system. Please re-read Alert #138 for an update.

Best Regards,
Wayne Fischer, Webmaster
Nevada Property Tax Revolt Web
www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org