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SUTTON - More than half the coal sales used by state officials to justify propertytax policies are sales from Braxton County, which has never even been one of the state's leading coal counties. More than 90 percent of the 475 sales... Published: Monday, August 22, 1994 Words: 1176
Secretary of State Ken Hechler dismisses the state Tax Department's new list of coal reserve sales as "obviously faulty." But a high-ranking tax official says, "If our methods are wrong, what methods are better?" Tax and Revenue Secretary... Published: Sunday, December 04, 1994 Words: 1338
The state Tax Department's new list of coal sales, released Thursday, represents about one-quarter of the value of sales on last year's list and less than one-third of the total acreage. Of the 143 sales on the new list, only 10 involve... Published: Sunday, June 04, 1995 Words: 784
Coal reserves on the state tax department's new list of "typical" recent coal transactions sold for a total of $104.7 million. Tax department appraisers, however, concluded these lands are worth only $62.6 million, or $42.1 million... Published: Sunday, June 23, 1996 Words: 1119
land values would "overvalue" most coal lands in the state. If Knight used the actual average value of coal sales in his own new list, coalproperty taxes would increase by 43 percent in the booming southern coalfields. Coalproperty... Published: Sunday, February 04, 1996 Words: 1261
The West Virginia Coal Association is upset with state tax department plans to increase property taxes on unmined coal in Southern West Virginia by 77 percent. "West Virginia coal owners already pay significantly higher property taxes... Published: Sunday, September 22, 1996 Words: 810
SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL Coal landowners in Southern West Virginia will soon be paying much higher property taxes if a list of coal reserve values filed on Friday is not challenged in court. James H. Paige III, state Department of Tax and... Published: Sunday, November 17, 1996 Words: 759
Deeds for the largest 65 coal sales on the Tax Department list come from 17 counties. Together, they represent 88 percent of the total price and total acreage on the complete list of 928 sales. Tax Department officials have said repeatedly... Published: Sunday, August 21, 1994 Words: 929
investigation by The Charleston Gazette revealed last week that the Tax Department list is riddled with errors. Most coal sales on the list do not meet the Tax Department's own rules for inclusion. But the failure of Tax Department... Published: Sunday, August 28, 1994 Words: 1410
Secretary of State Ken Hechler thinks it was no accident that the Tax Department filed its long-awaited list of coalproperty valuations on Thanksgiving eve. Because it was filed just hours before the start of the four-day holiday... Published: Tuesday, November 29, 1994 Words: 468