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KDOR says it will work with counties after auditors flag unreliable exemption coding
Summary
Auditors reported missing and inconsistent exemption codes in county CADOR data (about 7% blank) that limit analysis by exemption type; KDOR officials told the committee they will work with counties to improve coding and attempt to provide grouped reports from the 72,000 records.
Committee members pressed auditors and KDOR on whether the state's data could be reworked to show which exempt properties are universities, schools, tribally held land, or economic‑development exemptions. Representative Williams said the coding appears unreliable and asked whether KDOR could generate grouped summaries from the 72,000‑record dataset.
KDOR official Bob Kent told the committee "we can work with the counties to, make that process better," and agreed KDOR could examine the audit specifics and try to produce grouped reporting that separates common exemption types. He noted some limitations: titling differences (property titled to a university, the state, or the Board of Regents) and software constraints that make linking every parcel to a specific statute difficult without changes to datasets or code files.
The committee asked KDOR to follow up with a deliverable showing what grouped reporting the department can produce and whether legislative changes are necessary to standardize county coding.
The auditors also recommended KDOR add new IRBX and EDX codes and totals to its statistical reports so the public and the legislature can more easily see the magnitude of those economic‑development exemptions.
