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If you own at least one of the 109,984 pieces of taxable property located in Dona Ana County, you may have already received your 2024 Notice of Value from the county assessor’s office.
Thus, taxes may be paid under "protest". [7] At common law, and under some earlier tax statutes, the filing of a protest at the time of payment of an erroneous tax was a requirement in order for the payor to recover a refund of the tax at a later time. In the case of U.S. federal taxes, the rule was abolished by Congress in 1924. [8]
Some taxpayers pay their taxes, but include protest letters along with their tax forms. Others pay in a protesting form—for instance, by writing their cheque on a toilet seat or a mock-up of a missile. Others pay in a way that creates inconvenience for the collector—for instance, by paying the entire amount in low-denomination coins.
As a response to recent protests across the country, New Hanover County compiled a list of rules for protesting on county property.
The position of the Internal Revenue Service based upon the statutes and upon the related legal precedents in case law, is that these and similar tax protest arguments are frivolous and, if adopted by taxpayers as a basis for failure to timely file tax returns or pay taxes, may subject such taxpayers to penalties. On its web site, the IRS states:
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Special assessments effectively became unrestricted property tax increases appearing on the property tax bills of millions of California property owners. Once the special assessment loophole following the Knox decision was created by the courts, one lawyer working with local government politicians wrote that property assessments in California ...
African-American activist Robert Purvis refused to pay his Pennsylvania state taxes in protest against the state's denial of equal voting rights to black citizens around 1838, and then refused to pay the part of his property tax that went towards education in 1853 when his children were refused admission to the whites-only classrooms. [47]