Dear Incline Village and Crystal Bay Taxpayers,

Many of you have called with inquiries about the strange letter and invoice for additional taxes that was received from the Washoe County Treasurer. Others may have the same questions, hence this Alert.

All of those 1200+ taxpayers who Attorney Thomas Hall represented before the Washoe County Board of Equalization last year, 2005-2006, won an 8% reduction in their taxable Land Value. The Washoe County Assessor, Robert McGowan, appealed last year’s ruling by the County Board to the State Board of Equalization, where our victory was overturned.

The Village League then appealed the State Board’s decision to the court of Judge McGee for Judicial Review. Of course, the Attorney for the County has tried every possible way to postpone our hearing before the judge; however, we will be presenting arguments to the court toward the end of April.

We feel confident that we will win in our effort to overturn the State Board’s 8% increase to our Land Values. If we are correct, the County will then have to return those extra taxes with interest, to all of you that received the unexpected supplemental tax bill.

If you have not as yet paid the extra taxes, be sure to make the payment, “UNDER PROTEST”. If you do not have a form for paying under protest, go to our website at www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org.

Click on the Forms in the menu, download, print & fill it out and then send it in with your tax payment. Remember; ALWAYS make every payment to Washoe County "Under Protest".

It never ceases to amaze all of us, how convoluted this entire tax situation actually is. Every day is yet another new revelation.

Our thanks to all of you for your continuing support, and your confidence in our ability to prevail in this extremely difficult endeavor.

Sincerely,