"...An Expensive Knoxville Attorney"

Why the Tax Assessor's job is an elected position is beyond me. I think we should draft them, since anybody who actually WANTS to be Tax Assessor probably shouldn't be allowed to hold the office.

But then I feel the same way about most political offices.

The challenger in this case is basing his run on personal use of a cell phone and a smear sheet...And the question keeps popping up as to who is really paying for his "Expensive Knoxville Lawyer"?

Could we somehow ask that these folks start talking about their actual qualifications for this job?

Or is that the problem?

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Too many have fallen for the 'smear sheet' accusation before bothering to understand the point Robinette has been trying to make which is, by the way, one of more than a little interest to many in the county.
The current TA has taken advantage of several (perfectly legal!) tax-avoidance loopholes which nonetheless leave her personally paying less in property taxes than average county citizens with less than half the land and home value she possesses.
Again, what she has done IS perfectly legal. The question is: Is it ethical for the TA to pay less than $200 a year in property taxes on property worth a great deal (enough, under normal circumstances, to command some $4500 a year in taxes for the county otherwise) while NOT making everyone else in the county aware of how to use the very same legal loopholes she's used to avoid paying property taxes, so they too might benefit from these loopholes?
Or is she counting on Roane Countians' continued ignorance of these legal tax-avoidance tricks - which she and the other powers that be make such liberal use of - so that county tax revenues will only be paid primary by the rest of the 'suckers'?
If not, she seems to have conveniently left them uneducated regarding how to use her 'techniques'. I will not. Why, her tax-avoidance moves are an inspiration to those of us who want to help the many struggling families in our communities by helping them avoid unnecessarily paying property taxes. If it's good enough for the TA - and it's legal! - then it's good enough for them, too!
If the current TA is re-elected, I vow to go door-to-door and aquaint the average Roane Co. family with her techniques and show them how they can 'legally' use them, too.
Just think what the Co. Commission will do when property tax collections drop - via perfectly legally means!! - by eighty percent! They'll have the current TA to thank for that.

Why wait until after the election? We could all use them right now. :)

-- OneTahiti

"which she and the other powers that be make such liberal use of"

Just precisely WHICH "powers that be" make use of these legal but unethical means to lower property tax payments of which you speak?

Accusing an office holder of doing somethng that's perfectly legal!

Uh...Just so you know, I have land in that same perfectly legal program also. Lots of people do. It's called a Greenbelt designation, and I appreciate what it tries to do in helping to keep as much forested land as we can in Roane County.

The program has been discussed in the news paper any number of times in the past. That's how I found out about it. It is a statewide program.

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To date, the failure to expand Medicaid / TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding.

Tax Assessor

Please post those legal tax tips right here

Pray tell - enlighten us...

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