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Board enacts ordinance to add assessment‑appeal filing fee; taxpayers group objects to fee proliferation
Summary
The Kern County Board of Supervisors on a recorded vote adopted an ordinance to add a filing fee for assessment appeal applications, following staff recommendations and public comment from a taxpayer group opposed to fee proliferation.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted to enact an ordinance amending Title 2 of the Kern County Ordinance Code to add a filing fee to recover county costs of processing assessment appeal applications.
Stacy Kuwahara, representing the Clerk of the Board’s office, summarized the item and said staff met with constituents after an earlier continuation and reviewed other counties’ approaches. Kuwahara told the board that 43 counties in California impose an assessment‑appeal filing fee and that the…
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