The Pierce County Assessor Treasurer's Office will pay $13,000 of the $40,000 cost to send reply address stubs to 128,000 taxpayers.
The Pierce County Assessor Treasurer's Office will pay $13,000 of the $40,000 cost to send reply address stubs to 128,000 taxpayers.
The letters will be mailed by the end of February. The return address on property tax bills mailed last week was mistakenly omitted by the county's vendor and the assessor's office didn't catch the error.
Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer Mike Lonergan calls it “a big mistake.” More than 183,000 property tax bills his office mailed Friday are missing the return address on payment stubs.
More than 183,000 property tax statements mailed Friday are missing the return address on first- and second-half payment stubs.
For many Pierce County residents, another year of sliding home values caused property tax bills to decline this year.
At the corner of Mike Lonergan’s desk sits a green sheet of paper dusted with glitter. “I’M THE NEW GUY,” it reads.
The murders of law enforcement officials in Colorado and Texas have prompted a change in how people can search for property tax information in Walla Walla County.
County Treasurer Gordon Heimbigner said the ability for people to search for property information by name has been turned off on the county’s TaxSifter Parcel Search engine. Searches can still be done online by using the address or tax parcel number.
“After consulting with the prosecuting attorney’s office we decided to turn off the search by name function,” Heimbigner said.
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