- All
are available electronically
- YVN requests
IRS records from Auditor
- YAKIMA (Tuesday, 6-29-99)
Staff at the Yakima County Auditor's office indicate
the Internal Revenue Service has snatched around 300
properties from depressed county citizens since
1985.
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- Yakima Valley News as
asked County Auditor Doug Cochran for those
records.
- According to YVN's letter
to Cochran:
Douglas
Cochran
- Yakima County
Auditor
- 128 N. 3rd
St.
- Yakima, WA
98901
- June 29,
1999>
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- Dear Mr.
Cochran:
- It was good
to visit your office the other day. Would like to meet
you some time before the 2002 elections.
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- This is a
public records request ala RCW 42.17.
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- Within the
county's computer system is information dating back to
1985 regarding approximately 300 Yakima County
properties in which the IRS has had, or now has, an
interest.
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- Such forms as
the "Appointment of Successor Trustee", "Notice of
Trustee Sale" "Deed", "Notice of Intent to Forfeit",
"Certification of Redemption", etc., all reside in
your electronic files regarding each of these 300 or
so properties.
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- They are
available to a computer operator simply by punching in
"Internal Revenue Service" and watching what turns
up.
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- This
information is in electronic form, and I am requesting
it in electronic form. If this cannot be done, I
request it in "hard" copy.
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- I'm sure,
however, Program Analyst Jacob Tate can download this
information to disk(s) with no difficulty, thus saving
a tree or two.
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- If Jake can't
pinpoint its location, have him ask Auditor Office
Tech. Elizabeth Harris. He can download it through her
computer in minutes.
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- Respectfully,
- Larry Ashby,
Publisher
- Yakima Valley
News
- cc: YVN
articles section
- ecc: Jacob
Tate
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