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Board of Equalization grants extension for disabled-veteran exemption application of Troon E. Hopkins
Summary
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Board of Equalization voted 5-0 on May 16, 2025, to grant a deadline extension so the assessor will accept Troon E. Hopkins’s disabled‑veteran exemption application as if timely filed, after hearing testimony about medical treatment and mail/address issues.
The Board of Equalization of the Fairbanks North Star Borough on May 16, 2025, voted 5-0 to grant a deadline extension for a disabled‑veteran property‑tax exemption application filed by Troon E. Hopkins, allowing the assessor to accept the application as if it had been filed on time.
The extension was requested after the Borough Assessor denied an "unable to comply" extension for Hopkins. The assessor's office told the board it had denied the extension because its records showed the applicant’s documented medical treatment ended in November 2024 and because Hopkins’s mailing address of record remained a Dallas, Texas address until an April 29, 2025 change of address. The assessor representative told the board, "It had ended on February, fourteenth," referring to the deadline for timely applications, and said the office found Hopkins was listed as receiving a disabled‑veteran exemption on a Texas property for the 2024 and 2025 tax rolls.
Hopkins told the board he…
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