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County approves abatement corrections for disabled-veteran exemptions; auditor says mistake limited to one assessment year

2500796 · March 5, 2025
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Pennington County commissioners approved a batch of abatement requests correcting last year—s assessment treatment of disabled-veteran exemptions after equalization staff said the change unintentionally applied the exemption only to dwellings, not to dwelling plus land.

Pennington County commissioners unanimously approved a set of abatement requests March 4 to correct how disabled-veteran exemptions were applied for tax year 2024.

Shannon Rittberger, a county equalization official, told the board the office had reviewed the statute and initially applied the exemption only to the dwelling, rather than to the dwelling and the land as the county had done previously. “To correct that I come to the board and I ask for…

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