Kootenai County commissioners order corrected tax bills after data-transfer error

Kootenai County commissioners on June 2 instructed the treasurer to send corrected tax bills and offer a 12-month payment option for 13 parcels after a data-transfer error left assessed values at zero in the county’s roll, county officials said.

The corrected notices respond to an error in the county’s assessment-to-tax workflow that caused values entered after Board of Equalization (BOE) actions to fail to transfer from the appraisal system into the tax/cadastral system, producing $0 entries used to generate parts of the tax roll. Second-half property taxes are due June 20.

“it came to my office's attention back in, November of 20 24 that we had an issue with some of the parcels that were, their values were adjusted as part of the BOE process last summer,” Jill Smith, chief deputy treasurer, said during the meeting. Smith told the board the assessor’s office had joined the conversation in December and that the county has not yet completed the technical correction needed to bring the two systems back into alignment.

Dyson, a county staff member, described how the problem arose in the interface between two systems: “The…