Dec
19
CNHT eBlast 12/19/2006
Filed Under Assessing, CNHT eBlasts
Gary Rayno Lays An Eggo
The much anticipated “explanation” of the View Tax will have to wait a while because NH Sunday News reporter, Gary Rayno, who sat like a lump through the Assessing Standards Board Meeting in Concord Wednesday regurgitated the Boards line about there being no View Tax.
What a shame.
He did not add to his story the juicy stuff like this tax is the creation of an assessing board that formerly consisted of up to 75% assessors.
One of which WAS Gary Roberge, head of AVITAR Assessing.
The View Tax software of AVITAR the state’s largest assessing firm who’s software has had other “glitches” such as assessing small lots of land at five times their real value. Or that Avitar doesn’t quite follow the Assessing Standards Board’s own rules if they don’t feel like it.
Or how about the way the View Tax is adopted as law?
Is the View tax an act of the Legislature - NO.
Did town legislative bodies create it - NO.
Selectmen, Town Councilors, Aldermen - NO.
It came from a BUREAUCRACY.
The View Tax is the creation of :
CHAPTER 21-J
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE ADMINISTRATION
General Provisions
Section 21-J:1
21-J:1 Establishment; General Functions. –
I. There is established the department of revenue administration, an agency of the state, under the executive direction of a commissioner of revenue administration.
II. The department of revenue administration, through its officials, shall be responsible for the following general functions:
(a) Overseeing the collection of state taxes, assigned by specific tax law.
(b) Providing information collected through tax administration activities to the governor and general court for public policy decisions. This information shall not include material which identifies, or permits identification of, particular taxpayers.
(c) Establishing a uniform system of financial reports and accounting for the state’s political subdivisions.
Source. 1985, 204:1. 1987, 109:3, eff. July 5, 1987; 408:3, eff. May 26, 1987.
THIS is why the ASB is so hot to trot about NOT having people think they created a new tax WHEN THEY in fact DID!
Administrative Rule Chapter 600 is the “LAW” that supplies the structure for assessors to follow while assessing property in NH. It can be found on the CNHT Web site in the Blue Field. Scroll down to REV after you click on Rule 600 and you will go to the dept. of Rev. site. Then just scroll down to 600.
Taxpayers in NH have to start being aware of what is going on in their community because there is an effort by income taxers in the Legislature and the news media to quietly move to pass any broad based tax they can get.
The property tax is not going away with any broad-based tax.
The same people who pulled this stunt will be glad to administer an income or sales tax as well. Get it?
We need to control spending and out of control assessors who police themselves.
Ed Naile, CNHT