RACHEL D'ORO | 02/ 4/10 11:38 PM | AP
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Records show that Sarah Palin hasn't paid any property taxes on cabins that have been built on two back country plots that ar jointly owned by the former Alaska governor and a family friend, Scott Richter.
There are no tax assessments for the two-story, house-sized cabins, a workshop and a sauna spotted Thursday in an aerial survey. Property taxes totaling $156.13 were paid on the land in 2009 but that bill did not include anything for the structures. The local assessor didn't know about the new construction nearly 100 miles north of Anchorage.
This is curious because you would need a building permit from a county or other government entity to start construction of a house.
The issue has attracted the attention of local tax officials who conducted the scheduled aerial survey of properties in the area on Thursday. The area is accessible only by floatplane, snowmobile or four-wheeler.
Dave Dunivan, the assessor for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, said such a survey had not been done there in five years, before construction started on the cabins.
Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said it is not the responsibility of property owners to report structures that go up on their land.
"It is the borough's job," he said in an e-mail. "The property taxes on this parcel are fully paid and have never been delinquent." This attorney seems to be side stepping the issue of a building permit.
Dunivan, however, said owners are required by state law to report any omissions or errors in their tax assessments. Often, the borough learns of new structures in remote areas when neighbors report them. Dunivan said no one has called the borough on the Palin lots, among many in the region to add structures, the flyover survey found.
Another large log cabin reachable by road in the same area is listed at $229,000, but it's still on the market after two years, Steigler said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Records show that Sarah Palin hasn't paid any property taxes on cabins that have been built on two back country plots that ar jointly owned by the former Alaska governor and a family friend, Scott Richter.
There are no tax assessments for the two-story, house-sized cabins, a workshop and a sauna spotted Thursday in an aerial survey. Property taxes totaling $156.13 were paid on the land in 2009 but that bill did not include anything for the structures. The local assessor didn't know about the new construction nearly 100 miles north of Anchorage.
This is curious because you would need a building permit from a county or other government entity to start construction of a house.
The issue has attracted the attention of local tax officials who conducted the scheduled aerial survey of properties in the area on Thursday. The area is accessible only by floatplane, snowmobile or four-wheeler.
Dave Dunivan, the assessor for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, said such a survey had not been done there in five years, before construction started on the cabins.
Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said it is not the responsibility of property owners to report structures that go up on their land.
"It is the borough's job," he said in an e-mail. "The property taxes on this parcel are fully paid and have never been delinquent." This attorney seems to be side stepping the issue of a building permit.
Dunivan, however, said owners are required by state law to report any omissions or errors in their tax assessments. Often, the borough learns of new structures in remote areas when neighbors report them. Dunivan said no one has called the borough on the Palin lots, among many in the region to add structures, the flyover survey found.
Another large log cabin reachable by road in the same area is listed at $229,000, but it's still on the market after two years, Steigler said.
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/palin-did-not-pay-taxes-o_n_450344.html
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