STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — A recent mistake by the Routt County Treasurer’s Office deprived schools, libraries and dozens of other local taxing districts of nearly $6 million worth of their property tax revenue for more than two months.
Treasurer , , said the problem occurred in early May after the tax recipients received property tax payments for April 21 to April 30 instead of for the entire month.
Some tax recipients who were shorted by the mistake worried about their financial situations when their initial payments were short by as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars of what they were expected to be.
The mistake has also drawn scrutiny from Routt County commissioners, who have spent recent days demanding answers from Horn about how the error occurred and how she plans to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
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