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circulation for a series by investigative reporter Paul Nyden about state tax officials, large landowners and coal mine operators. The series, titled "PropertyTax Ripoffs," is an example of reporting in the finest tradition, slogging... Published: Wednesday, April 19, 1995 Words: 291
perhaps at West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he lives and works. Jerry Knight, who heads the tax department's propertytax division, said his division will continue looking at better ways to value coalproperty. The department's... Published: Friday, November 10, 1995 Words: 549
SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL Coalproperty taxes may go up more than 75 percent in Southern West Virginia if new state Department of Tax and Revenue values go into effect. Assistant Tax Commissioner Robert A. Hoffman filed new appraised values... Published: Sunday, August 25, 1996 Words: 576
of the task, the Tax Department has made a very fine mess of the situation. First, the department assembled a list of 928 sales of coal reserve lands that was supposed to help determine an average value. But when Gazette investigative... Published: Wednesday, December 07, 1994 Words: 520
proposed agreement will call on Lees to withdraw the lawsuit as well as a petition asking a judge to halt the collecting of property taxes on coal lands pending the lawsuit's outcome. Tax officials argued freezing the process weeks... Published: Tuesday, June 27, 1995 Words: 491
A revised list of recent coal sales being used by the state Tax Department to set the average value of an acre of West Virginia coal was filed with the secretary of state's office on Thanksgiving eve. The list, which became necessary... Published: Sunday, December 04, 1994 Words: 772
$50 billion and $75 billion dollars," White said. "This tax commission should be asking how much should be collected in property taxes on coal," White said. Michael Caryl, a commission member and former state Tax Commissioner under... Published: Friday, July 03, 1998 Words: 1013
secretary, who also serves as tax commissioner, should not be a lawyer with a big firm, or have a practice of representing coal companies since the Tax Division has to appraise and assess minerals Lorensen's replacement, Susman said,... Published: Wednesday, July 25, 1990 Words: 465
THE COAL FIRMS PAY FEW LOCAL TAXES TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS AND COUNTY government. Investigative reporter Paul Nyden found these examples of tax-ducking: NERCO Coal Corp. of Oregon is paying about $41 million for 9,920 acres of coal land... Published: Tuesday, November 06, 1990 Words: 486
coal properties. No wonder Clay County means riches for the absentee corporations and poverty for the residents. Why are property taxes so low on coal tracts? Mostly because a formula devised by the state Tax Division sets absurdly... Published: Tuesday, April 23, 1991 Words: 476
