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Lieutenant Governor's Office Says Issue of Excessive Property Tax Bills Isolated to Timeshares; Residents Disagree

Lieutenant Governor Tregenza Roach said Tuesday afternoon that the Office of the Tax Collector has concluded that timeshare owners were billed commercial property tax rates instead of residential rates, and that the office was in the process of addressing the issue. "We are in the process of correcting that in our system, and supplemental bills will be sent to those owners," Mr. Roach told the Consortium following an inquiry. But the lieutenant governor said there was no exorbitant year-over-year increases for residential customers, and that a case the Consortium brought to his attention regarding a residential property owner was an oddity. "That particular case you mentioned, however, is an anomaly," Mr. Roach said. "We have not seen any evidence of bills which show exorbitant increases over the previous year. Anyone having such an issue is asked to contact the office of the Tax Collector." Several residents reached out to the Consortium Monday stating that they had received exces...