No appeal method is taxation

without representation

Dear Board of Tax Appeals:

I want to try and understand what the Bonner County Board of Commissioners Joe Young, Marcia Phillips and Karl Dye are doing to me as a taxpayer.

My 2006 assessments were out of line enough that I filed an appeal. Hundreds of other Bonner County citizens also filed appeals and it seems there were so many it bogged down the system.

The commissioners promised a correction to the assessments, and three important issues affecting me arose from their efforts.

1. A statement that no appeals would be allowed.

2. My assessment that I appealed rose an additional 12 percent from the 235 percent increase that I was appealing. Some tax reform.

3. Did I mention that my original appeal was not considered? As in thrown out.

As I went through the numbers on the 2006, "New Assessment Notice," one thing above all others stood out. The line — 34 BLDG RES TR — was exactly double, right to the penny.

This tells me the methodology used had no intelligent thought put into it.

If appealing is form of representative government I firmly believe that this is taxation without representation

JEFFREY and CAROL BOCK