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Wyandotte taxpayers get break from court
TOPEKA, Kan. — Secretary Ed Rolfs said yesterday that the state Department of Revenue would not challenge a district court judge's order under which Wyandotte County property owners won't have to pay increased taxes when first-half payments are due.
Wyandotte County Judge Cordell Meeks Jr. issued an order Wednesday requiring the state to permit people in that county to pay the same taxes as residents of 1988, allowing them to appeal the increases without paying them.
Rolfs said the department would adhere to Meeks' order, but that he had instructed department attorney John Maundy to make an indication of just what the order means.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by Charles R. Wullwold of Kansas City, Kan., a taxpayer in Wyandotte County. It was filed Monday by attorney David W. Carson of Kansas City, Kan., for Wullwold.
Burghart said he would seek a hearing before Meeks early next month. The judge applies only to taxpayers who experience increases in their property
taxes this year, or to all taxpayers in Wyandotte County.
The order does not apply to taxpayers in any of the state's 104 other districts.
State law requires taxpayers to pay the first half of their property taxes on Dec. 20 and the second half on June 20 of next year.
However, publicity about Meeks' order may prompt taxpayers in other counties to bring similar lawsuits against the Revenue Department.
However, because of the uproar about tax increases resulting from reappraisal and classification, Gov. Mike Hayden last week instructed the state to delay from Dec. 20 to Jan. 16 to make on which first-baidt taxes are paid.
Some attorneys do not think the department and governor have the authority to implement such a delay in tax payments and two counties. Ellis and Leavenworth, are consider-able Hayden's order in court.
Delays in tax payments will mean school districts, cities and counties will have to wait to get their property tax revenue. Some may have to issue what are called no-fund warrants to borrow the money for operations until the tax money comes in.
Tax delay could hurt services
Dave Wakefield
Kansan staff writer
But if enough people delay their payments this way, the county might have to borrow money to cover its March 1 debt payments, said Chris McKenzie, county administrator. That expense could lead to reductions in services this year or increased taxes next year, he said.
County services might be cut if property owners are allowed to delay payment of their taxes, a county official said last night.
Even if county revenues are sufficient to cover the March 1 debt payments, the county would lose from delays in tax payments.
Under a plan endorsed yesterday by a joint Legislative committee, people who appeal their reassessments could pay one-fourth of their tax Jan. 16, one-fourth March 20 and the rest June 20.
Normally, people pay their taxes in December and some of this is invested and earns hundreds of thousands of dollars, McKenzie said. Because interest income is included in the budget, any loss of revenue early in the year could lead to budget cuts.
MkCenzie said that another proposal to raise the sales tax to offset high property taxes had already been signed by county commissioners.
On Monday, county commissioners approved a proposal by commissioner Nancy Hiebert to study how much revenue and consequent relief to property owners such a tax might provide.
County Chairman Mike Amyx said that the county was proceeding with that study but that there were differing opinions on the suitability of raising one tax to pay for decreases in another tax.
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