Man pays $4,000 property tax bill in coins

[Arizona Coin Collector]

FROM:
http://nwitimes.com/articles/2009/02/17//updates/breaking_news/doc499b61325a076416225256.txt

Man pays $4,000 property tax bill in coins

By The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

SOUTH BEND, Ind. | A South Bend man has paid a $4,079
property tax bill in coins to protest different
assessments for his home and for a rental property
he owns across the street.

Richard Ross and his son-in-law lugged two carts with
11 sacks of change into the St. Joseph County
treasurer's office Tuesday. He said the money was the
property tax for the rental home.

"Same size house, same value, but because it's a
rental home and I don't live in it, I don't have the
benefit of any of the exemptions or credits," Ross
said. "So, in effect, the property taxes there are
four times as much as on my personal dwelling.

"It just doesn't seem fair."

Ross and County Treasurer Sean Coleman took the
coins to a bank to have them counted automatically.
He was short $1.07, which he paid out of pocket
with a dollar bill, a nickel and two pennies.

"I'm sorry to put you through this, but I don't
have any other way to protest," Ross told Coleman.

Information from: South Bend Tribune,
http://www.southbendtribune.com .

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