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Commission OKs county portion of property-tax refund after appraisal error; remainder contingent on recapture
Summary
After a homeowner’s reappraisal showed a substantial reduction in assessed square footage, the Carbon County commissioners approved refunding the county’s share of overpaid 2024 property taxes (about $623); the remaining roughly $930 attributed to other taxing jurisdictions will be refunded only if those jurisdictions can be clawed back.
Debbie Brewer, a homeowner in the Remington Ranch subdivision, told the Carbon County commissioners on July 8 that a spring reappraisal found her house had been recorded at roughly 5,200 square feet when the corrected sketch shows about 2,600 square feet. She asked the board to refund the difference between what she paid and what she should have paid based on the corrected appraisal.
Cathy Smiley, lead appraiser in the county’s Department of Revenue office, said the original error was a sketching/measurement mistake that occasionally slips through quality control. She told the commission that correcting the county’s 2024 records would change the home’s assessed value from $896,230 to $627,030, a difference of about $269,200, which translated in the…
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