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Sumner County commissioners ask assessor to pause reclassifying some rental homes as commercial
Summary
After public comment and several commissioners raised legal and fairness concerns, the county committee voted to send a resolution to the full commission asking the tax assessor to suspend new classifications that shift certain residential rental properties to commercial or industrial rates until legal questions are resolved.
Sumner County commissioners voted to send a resolution to the full commission asking the county property assessor to suspend recent reclassifications that moved some residential rental properties to commercial or industrial tax rates.
The request followed public comment from longtime landlord Tom Mathis and an extended committee discussion about differing court decisions and an existing attorney general opinion that county leaders said make local application uncertain. Mathis told the committee he has owned rental properties in Sumner County for decades and said the assessor’s office told him it was targeting LLCs and larger owners. “I said, ‘are you telling me after you get past this year … you all don’t have any intentions of coming after anybody else who owns two or more rentals?’ They got real quiet and decided to sit. ‘No. I’m sure we will,’” Mathis said in his public comment.
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