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Town clerk Tammy Bakke denies tax-fraud accusations, asks select board to publicly clear her name
Summary
At a Kingston Select Board meeting, Town Clerk and Tax Collector Tammy Bakke publicly denied accusations tied to her property assessment and current-use status, requested the board acknowledge the claims were baseless and described relevant assessment and tax-change details dating back to 1979 and 2015.
Tammy Bakke, Kingston’s town clerk and tax collector, told the Select Board at its meeting that accusations made during a Feb. 19 candidates’ night and discussed elsewhere are unfounded and asked the board to publicly acknowledge that the allegations against her are baseless.
Bakke said the accusations included claims of tax fraud related to her property at 26 North Road and contention that records or tapes had been destroyed. She said her property has been enrolled in current use “since at least 1979” and that in February 2015 an assessor (Fred Smith of KTR…
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