Records: Palin cabins not noted in tax assessments

AP via Yahoo ^ | 02/04/10 | RACHEL D'ORO

[jerry557]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Records show that Sarah Palin hasn't paid any property taxes on cabins that have been built on two backcountry plots partially owned by the former Alaska governor.

There are no tax assessments for the two-story, house-sized cabins, a workshop and a sauna spotted Thursday in an aerial survey. Property taxes totaling $156.13 were paid on the land in 2009 — but that bill did not include anything for the structures because the local assessor didn't know about the new construction nearly 100 miles north of Anchorage.

The issue has attracted the attention of local tax officials who conducted the scheduled aerial survey of properties in the area on Thursday. The area is accessible only by floatplane, snowmobile or four-wheeler.

Dave Dunivan, the assessor for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, said such a survey had not been done there in five years, before construction started on the cabins.

Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said it is not the responsibility of property owners to report structures that go up on their land.

"It is the borough's job," he said in an e-mail. "The property taxes on this parcel are fully paid and have never been delinquent."

[ABQHispConservative]

Wow. They never tire, do they?

[pillut48]

“aerial survey”=spying on the Palins looking for ‘gotcha’ ‘evidence’

[Lakeshark]

Imagine if they put just 1% of this effort into investigating Obama........

[FTJM]

So desperate.

[Ramius]

$156 dollars??? are you freaking kidding me?

[Snurple]

GMAFB. Let me guess... the fat ugly broad celtic diva or what ever in the hell she calls her self was involved in this.

[VicVega]

Now I know why the IRS is buying those shotguns.

[Trajan88]

Alaska is a very big state... that tax assessor/collector needs to make sure he/she spends equal time looking over the whole state (might even find some bleeding heart liberals that have structures on their properties).

[Snurple]

GMAFB. Let me guess... the fat ugly broad celtic diva or what ever in the hell she calls her self was involved in this.

[icwhatudo]

How do you pay something you haven’t been billed for?

[highlander_UW]

Property tax is unconstitutional anyway. It removes the ability to own land as property. Instead you only lease it. As soon as you fail to pay taxes that land can be taken away...so when you buy you may get control over the land but only as long as you pay rent to the gov’t.

[liberty or death]

Lived in AK for 25 years and NEVER reported any improvemnents to my properties or purchases.

You wanna tax me Borough? Then do your job. It’s not my job as a state citizen to hand you new ways to tax me and my families hard earned purchases.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Palin Derangement Syndrome in full bloom. I wonder if this moron could point to one other time they have done one of these “surveys” and made a big deal about it. It’s probably only a coincidence that the photos showed up on Palin-hater blogs. This is just more BS from the Palin-hating Obamites.

[J Edgar]

“It is the borough's job,” he said in an e-mail. “The property taxes on this parcel are fully paid and have never been delinquent.”

Sounds like it's the assessor’s responsibility to access value and levy tax owed. There is no story here.

[wardaddy]

Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said it is not the responsibility of property owners to report structures that go up on their land.

Did some asshat AP flunky not know this?

[liberty or death]

What the libs get away with in Alaska regarding this subject alone will just piss you off. Like Obama they can do no wrong in the eyes of the left wing rags of Alaska.

[TV Dinners]

Tell that to Harris Co., Tx

[Bigtigermike]

RACHEL D’ORO is a person people for the AP that hates Sarah Palin and often has bad and incorrect information in her articles, she was even caught saying some derogatory remarks in a Palin crowd about Sarah on the day she resigned.....

[jerry557]

I find it facinating on how the left feels so threatened by Palin.

It’s an obsession for some of them.

[Joe 6-pack]

"$156 dollars??? are you freaking kidding me?"

LOL....I wonder how much the survey flight cost....

[BradyLS]

Records show that Sarah Palin hasn't paid any property taxes on cabins that have been built on two backcountry plots partially owned by the former Alaska governor.

I'm confused already. How does partially owned work? Could be it's part of a development she has a stake in?

[9YearLurker]

Interesting. I take it no local permits needed to be filed or that would be the story.

[SoCalPol]

This got started by the leftwing AK bloggers who have set up several frivolous law suits in the past few yrs.
and all thrown out by the court.

You know Sarah Palin is doing good work when the left wing
is always on her.

[Snurple]

Sarah Palin is a Christian. Sarah Palin tells the truth and is against abortion....she really believe in and loves this country.
Why wouldn’t a liberal be scared to death of her?
Jn 1:5...The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

[Cementjungle]

Interesting. I take it no local permits needed to be filed or that would be the story.

It gets even worse... I hear that thousands of earthworms were injured during the digging of the foundations for the cabins. She could be in a heap of trouble.

[highlander_UW]

Tell that to Harris Co., Tx

I'm sure they'll amend their ways as soon as I contact them for you. LOL.

[appeal2]

This is where you have it totally wrong. Its the statis corporatocracy that fears her as if she were dracula making an unscheduled withdrawal from the local blood bank. You have understand that as governor she took on the most powerful corporation on earth—Exxon-Mobil and kicked their buts. She forced through the Tran Alaskan Gas Pipeline and forced them to develop other properties that they were warehousing. Anyone who doesn’t believe that Rockefeller doesn’t control directly or indirectly Exxon, JP Morgan Chase, much of the media and a large portion of both parties, should go back in American history starting with the midwestern republican presidents in the late 1800’s to the present time. This is not just political static, she represents a threat to the way that big business is done in this country.

[ak267]

Everybody repead after me....P.D.S !!!

[Cobra64]

"Shoot her on site for the cabin."

[Markos33]

"Imagine if they put just 1% of this effort into investigating Obama........"

Exactly.

With only minimal effort there could be enough dirt dug up on that reptile to back fill half of the Grand Canyon.

[proud_yank]

There are no tax assessments for the two-story, house-sized cabins, a workshop and a sauna spotted Thursday in an aerial survey. Property taxes totaling $156.13 were paid on the land in 2009 — but that bill did not include anything for the structures because the local assessor didn't know about the new construction nearly 100 miles north of Anchorage.

The issue has attracted the attention of local tax officials who conducted the scheduled aerial survey of properties in the area on Thursday. The area is accessible only by floatplane, snowmobile or four-wheeler.

This is the Talkeetna/Trapper Creek area. If its snowmachine or 4-wheeler accessable it is most likely the Petersville area just west of Trapper Creek. All within the Matanuska/Susitna Burrough. Popular snowmachine area, and lots of people from Anchorage/Wasilla have cabins there. Some are very nice, others are tiny 1-room snow machine cabins.

Many friends and co-workers have places back in there, and I heard of one getting hit with something similar for building another small cabin on his property. The state uses airplanes regularly for stuff like this. The Matanuska/Susitna burrough has property taxes, other more remote burroughs do not have property taxes.

[Kickass Conservative]

Does this mean Sarah Palin is now qualified to be Obama’s Treasury Secretary?

[philetus]

I find it facinating on how the left feels so threatened by Palin.

It’s an obsession for some of them.”

Evil fears good

[proud_yank]

How does partially owned work?

Owned with a friend.

[Kirkwood]

So how much more would have been assessed? $5?

[Crim]

“She pisses off all the right people “ dennis miller

[CaribouCrossing]

“The matter first appeared Wednesday on an Alaska political blog site, Mudflats, which has been critical of Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate.”

‘nuf said

Palin’s enemies will do anything to try and defame her.

[txhurl]

Oh. You mean like Whitewater?

Or an empty lot with Rezko?

[Markos33]

I've read more than one by from MrB explaining it this way...
"They smell Christ on her!"

That's why the rabid dogs hate her so much.

[uptoolate]

Heflin: Texas can end the property tax:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444793/posts

[proud_yank]

This is where you have it totally wrong. Its the statis corporatocracy that fears her as if she were dracula making an unscheduled withdrawal from the local blood bank. You have understand that as governor she took on the most powerful corporation on earth—Exxon-Mobil and kicked their buts. She forced through the Tran Alaskan Gas Pipeline and forced them to develop other properties that they were warehousing. Anyone who doesn’t believe that Rockefeller doesn’t control directly or indirectly Exxon, JP Morgan Chase, much of the media and a large portion of both parties, should go back in American history starting with the midwestern republican presidents in the late 1800’s to the present time. This is not just political static, she represents a threat to the way that big business is done in this country.

This sounds even more alarmist than most of the nonsense on DU. Furthermore, it was the state which denied more than 20 drilling applications for the Pt. Thompson lease, and construction on the gas line is nowhere near being started. Grow up.

[Markos33]

"more than one by" = more than one post by...

[Snurple]

That is the honest truth. She is the fragrance of Christ in a demons nostril....drives em nuts.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh shock, horror, Sarah Palin passed through a legal loophole. Big fat deal: she didn’t put the loophole there and didn’t try to cover it up either.

How about the loophole she DID put in Alaskan ethics law — a loophole which most ironically ran her out of office because it did not require squat in terms of liability of people who complained?

[proud_yank]

Exaaaactly! ;-)

[Dead Corpse]

Weak sauce. Morons...

[Ditto]

Lived in AK for 25 years and NEVER reported any improvemnents to my properties or purchases.

I have lived in the same house in Pennsylvania for as long and never once asked for a building permit for stuff I have done on my house because all they would do is up my taxes.

They might discover it the next time the county does a reassessment, but in the mean time, if I spend my own money to improve my property, it's none of their damn business.

[Eska]

I know many people who never quite finish their houses & cabins; prop taxes are the reason.

Most of rural Alaska has no prop taxes anyway; we don't here in Eagle.

If she does as well as she did as Governor up here; the USA will be on it's way solvency once again; if a country remains after OB man.

[Snurple]

"if a country remains after OB man."

Ours is a great nation with a resilient people...we've survived more desperate times than anything this moron (and friends) can dish out.