Kootenai County commissioners approve multiple tax cancellations and valuation adjustments, including nearly $27 million Viking Construction rollback

Kootenai County commissioners on July 9 approved a bundle of valuation adjustments and tax cancellations, including a nearly $27 million reduction to the assessed value for a Viking Construction parcel, a mapping correction of about $150,000 and several other adjustments that county staff described as historical cleanups.

The actions affect multiple parcels and taxing years and were approved unanimously by the three commissioners in attendance: Commissioner Everline, Commissioner Duncan and Commissioner Metari. County assessor's office staff said the items come from an expanded audit of exempt entities and mapping packets that in some cases had produced taxable values in error.

Terry Johnston, an assessor's office staff member, told the board items 1 through 8 are the product of a continuing effort “to clean these up as time goes on,” and said some properties were made taxable in 2017 even though the cancellation being requested does not reach back to 2017. Johnston asked that municipalities and property owners notify the assessor's…