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Tad Rasmussen, auditor candidate, emphasizes fraud detection, 0‑based budgeting and fixing Vault delays
Summary
On the Utah County Republican Party podcast, Tad Rasmussen, a candidate for county auditor and current auditor-office procurement staffer, said he would tighten fraud flags, push for 0‑based budgeting to reduce surprise tax increases, tighten checks after a tax-rate entry error, and speed up the Vault ERP rollout by staffing implementation earlier.
Tad Rasmussen, who works in the Utah County auditor's office and is running for county auditor, told the Utah County Republican Party podcast that his priorities include strengthening fraud detection, improving budget accuracy and accelerating the county’s Vault enterprise-resource-planning rollout.
Rasmussen said he spends his current job “always looking at potential fraud issues,” and described practical flags that trigger deeper reviews — for example, suppliers repeatedly winning procurements with minor changes or line items altered to get under approval thresholds. “If there is some potential fraud, we will look at it more thoroughly,” he said.
He criticized early budget estimates that led to large recommended property-tax increases and urged better data and citizen input to avoid “sticker shock.” The host cited prior county recommendations — a 67% initial increase in 2019 and a 48% increase…
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