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Commissioners demand answers after missing assessor data leaves tax-freezes unclear
Summary
Commissioner Rogers raised concerns that a system conversion and a parcel merge led to unclear tax-freeze calculations countywide; county attorneys and staff were directed to retrieve legacy data from the vendor Patriot and report back.
Commissioner Rogers told the Sumner County Commission on Jan. 13 that a change in the assessor’s data system left prior parcel records inaccessible and may have caused tax-freeze errors affecting multiple property owners.
The issue emerged when Rogers said his elderly father’s 2019 tax freeze appeared to have been applied to a merged 9.03-acre parcel; county staff later told Rogers that state law limits a tax freeze to the dwelling plus five acres and that a system conversion from the Patriot product removed older data. “There was a merge in the 2 parcels. 2101 was merged, with another parcel that was there, the other 4.03 acres that made the…
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