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Commissioners deny long-running tax-abatement request after dispute with Department of Revenue
Summary
Gerald and Roy Schwagel sought refund of roughly $7,000 in mobile-home taxes they say arose after a unit was removed in 2007; commissioners denied the abatement request after agency records showed the Department of Revenue received an affidavit in 2024, not 2007.
Flathead County commissioners on May 13 voted to deny a tax-refund abatement request from Gerald and Roy Schwagel, who said they stopped paying taxes on a mobile home removed from their property in February 2007 and later learned their mortgage company had been paying the tax bills from escrow.
The Schwagels told the board they filed a notarized affidavit in 2007 showing the mobile home was removed. County officials and a Department of Revenue representative disputed that the agency had any record of…
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