Arkansas Tax bits
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:24 pm
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Doug and I once went to one of Harold's events at this Ozark Research Institute. They really like making claims about dowsing. We offered several them $1,000 cash if they could do anything with their dowsing, under proper observing conditions. Just a simple test showing they can do what they claim they can do. They all declined.
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FAYETTEVILLE — The Springdale Chamber of Commerce hasn’t paid property taxes on its office in 10 years.
Dan Cypert, Washington County Assessor Lee Ann Kizzar’s chief deputy, discovered last week that the Springdale building was exempted by the county’s Board of Equalization in 1997. .........
EXEMPTIONS Granting an exemption has a consequence for other taxpayers, said Jewette Farley, a former assessor in Lincoln Parish, La., and former president of the International Association of Assessing Officers. “It creates a big-time problem, because it forces everybody else to pay more taxes,” Farley said.
Members of the Ozark Research Institute, who say they once healed a sick goldfish through the power of thought and who say they manipulate energy to remove tumors from people, don’t want to pay taxes on their Fayetteville building.
The institute isn’t exempt even though it’s a nonprofit corporation, Kizzar said. Harold McCoy, a retired Army intelligence officer who founded the institute in 1992, plans to talk with Kizzar again.
“We do healing work,” Mc-Coy said. “We research mind phenomena. The mind works in four bands of frequency. We do that kind of research and teach people how to use their mind. Whether the tax assessor believes in what we do, we use this building for that and we should be tax exempt.”
erry F. Kirk, who lives in a rural area northeast of Witts Springs, deeded 82 acres and his home to God on Dec. 12. He gave a copy of the deed to Ratchford.
Ratchford said Kirk must pay. Last year, Kirk paid $ 594. 01.
“I called the state’s attorney to see if I should show the owner as the Father in heaven and his only begotten son, the Christ, because that’s who he says he gave it to,” Ratchford said. “He told me no. The grantor has to be able to show delivery, and he can’t show that. That’s what I’ve been told.” Kirk, a former Florida homebuilder, said his own “arrogance and ignorance” made him think he owned the land. He doesn’t intend to pay the taxes this year.
“I’m not authorized to pay something for the Father in heaven,” Kirk said. “I think the county is going to have some very difficult problems, and I don’t want to see that happen. You can’t pay taxes for somebody else.” In Benton County, Assessor Bill Moutray is fretting about how to deal with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which is under construction in Bentonville.
Larry passed this along. Send me a link if you have one for this Larry.
Doug and I once went to one of Harold's events at this Ozark Research Institute. They really like making claims about dowsing. We offered several them $1,000 cash if they could do anything with their dowsing, under proper observing conditions. Just a simple test showing they can do what they claim they can do. They all declined.
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FAYETTEVILLE — The Springdale Chamber of Commerce hasn’t paid property taxes on its office in 10 years.
Dan Cypert, Washington County Assessor Lee Ann Kizzar’s chief deputy, discovered last week that the Springdale building was exempted by the county’s Board of Equalization in 1997. .........
EXEMPTIONS Granting an exemption has a consequence for other taxpayers, said Jewette Farley, a former assessor in Lincoln Parish, La., and former president of the International Association of Assessing Officers. “It creates a big-time problem, because it forces everybody else to pay more taxes,” Farley said.
Members of the Ozark Research Institute, who say they once healed a sick goldfish through the power of thought and who say they manipulate energy to remove tumors from people, don’t want to pay taxes on their Fayetteville building.
The institute isn’t exempt even though it’s a nonprofit corporation, Kizzar said. Harold McCoy, a retired Army intelligence officer who founded the institute in 1992, plans to talk with Kizzar again.
“We do healing work,” Mc-Coy said. “We research mind phenomena. The mind works in four bands of frequency. We do that kind of research and teach people how to use their mind. Whether the tax assessor believes in what we do, we use this building for that and we should be tax exempt.”
erry F. Kirk, who lives in a rural area northeast of Witts Springs, deeded 82 acres and his home to God on Dec. 12. He gave a copy of the deed to Ratchford.
Ratchford said Kirk must pay. Last year, Kirk paid $ 594. 01.
“I called the state’s attorney to see if I should show the owner as the Father in heaven and his only begotten son, the Christ, because that’s who he says he gave it to,” Ratchford said. “He told me no. The grantor has to be able to show delivery, and he can’t show that. That’s what I’ve been told.” Kirk, a former Florida homebuilder, said his own “arrogance and ignorance” made him think he owned the land. He doesn’t intend to pay the taxes this year.
“I’m not authorized to pay something for the Father in heaven,” Kirk said. “I think the county is going to have some very difficult problems, and I don’t want to see that happen. You can’t pay taxes for somebody else.” In Benton County, Assessor Bill Moutray is fretting about how to deal with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which is under construction in Bentonville.