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Escambia Bills Bratt Couple For Property Taxes On County Park
April 13, 2011
A Bratt couple was billed several hundred dollars in property taxes for county-owned land that’s actually the new Bratt Community Park, and the Escambia County Commission is set this week to correct the error.
In early 2009, the county traded 57 acres of mostly wetlands that the county owned on Hanks Road for 13.19 acres at the corner of West Highway 4 and Bratt Road. The Highway 4 property was owned by Kale and Donna Schneider.
After the January, 2009 closing on the land swap, the county notified the Escambia County Tax Collector’s Office that the county had acquired the property and taxes should be canceled. The Tax Collector’s office removed an agricultural exemption on the property, effectively raising the taxes, but the taxes where not exempted.
That left the Schneiders with a $372.11 property tax bill on the county-owned park.
Thursday night, the Escambia County Commission is expected to approve a resolution canceling the taxes for good on the property and eliminating the Schneiders’ tax bill.
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5 Responses to “Escambia Bills Bratt Couple For Property Taxes On County Park”
Good grief.
Why da ell do the 5 members of the BOCC and their 10+ assistants and County Attorney have to spend taxdollars in time and effort to enact a resolution to get the Tax Appraiser and Tax Collector to do the jobs they were elected to do?
Way to go David~ you tell ‘em and straighten ‘em out. If that don’t work, sing to them…’poor Howard!!!
It could’ve been paved when all the paving was going on if a few landowners had not been stubborn and selfish~ it would have been an asset to all who travel that way, but some would not agree. Plain and simple.
mistakes happen, just so they correct them, all is well
regarding paving Bratt Road, they have the money just choose to “waste” it on us at this time. I’ll try to convince them this coming Saturday.
David for correcting errors
and keeping promises
Can we just find some tax money from somewhere to PAVE BRATT ROAD? Please!! The park has a paved walking track & the road isn’t even paved. This would be wonderful if Bratt Road was paved & free from red dirt. So much money has been spent on dirt, it probably could have been paved by now.