comanchepilot
En-Route
I moved in 2015. One county to another in SoCal. Of course, when I changed my aircraft registration address the new address the new county decided it needed some money as well.
I returned their form and stated: 1) aircraft is not physically present in your county on Jan 1. 2) aircraft is hangared and taxed in a different county.
That didn't seem to matter - even though the assessment laws support me. So I did 2 things - first off- I filed a legal assessment appeal - citing chapter and verse that the aircraft was not present in their county on the date in question. Sent a copy of the hangar bill for the month in question - and then claimed credit for the taxes paid to another county - this last part made the collections staff go away - but I STILL processed the assessment appeal - and finally won that. But the idiots on the assessment appeals board wanted to know why I was pursuing the appeal if I was getting a full credit for the taxes paid someplace else.
I told them that they lacked the legal authority under California law to assess me as the property was not present in their county on the day in question. . . .and more over their own rules and regulations, which they never looked at of course, stated a mailing address for satisfying registration requirements of the residence of the owner is not grounds for assessment. The head of the board asks me: Did you tell that to the assessor.
My response was: did you even open the file?
Yes = I got the snotty look back but won the appeal. I'm sure I'll have to go though the whole procedure next year as well.
I returned their form and stated: 1) aircraft is not physically present in your county on Jan 1. 2) aircraft is hangared and taxed in a different county.
That didn't seem to matter - even though the assessment laws support me. So I did 2 things - first off- I filed a legal assessment appeal - citing chapter and verse that the aircraft was not present in their county on the date in question. Sent a copy of the hangar bill for the month in question - and then claimed credit for the taxes paid to another county - this last part made the collections staff go away - but I STILL processed the assessment appeal - and finally won that. But the idiots on the assessment appeals board wanted to know why I was pursuing the appeal if I was getting a full credit for the taxes paid someplace else.
I told them that they lacked the legal authority under California law to assess me as the property was not present in their county on the day in question. . . .and more over their own rules and regulations, which they never looked at of course, stated a mailing address for satisfying registration requirements of the residence of the owner is not grounds for assessment. The head of the board asks me: Did you tell that to the assessor.
My response was: did you even open the file?
Yes = I got the snotty look back but won the appeal. I'm sure I'll have to go though the whole procedure next year as well.
