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Resident tells commission Elkins charged city sales tax to county ZIP; official response not recorded
Summary
During public comment, Tim Tye said several online purchases to his 26241 ZIP code were charged a 1% City of Elkins sales tax even though he lives outside city limits and that state systems do not use the ZIP+4; commissioners heard the comment but no county action was recorded.
Resident Tim Tye used the meeting’s public-comment period to allege that several online purchases to his 26241 ZIP code were improperly charged a 1% City of Elkins sales tax even though his address is outside the city limits. Tye said he contacted vendors and state offices and that the issue has affected others for years: "the Citizens of the County are being robbed," he said, and urged attention to the error that he asserted stems from how ZIP codes are processed.
Commissioners thanked Tye for bringing the matter to their attention; the transcript records no county action or formal follow-up assignment in response. The claim implicates city-level tax collection and state systems for ZIP-code processing; the Commission did not record a response from Elkins officials or from state tax authorities during the meeting, so the allegation remains unresolved based on the meeting record.
