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Taxing Unpatented Mining Claims, Fremont County sending out Real Property Notice of Valuations
ASTROBLEME
post May 8 2012, 05:05 PM
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Just when I thought I had everything pretty much figured out with mining claim laws, Fremont County sends me a Real Property Notice of Valuation for my unpatented placer mining claims. After running the numbers and reading the fine print, county government was making a demand for several hundred dollars on each claim. No other county has demanded taxes on unpatented claims I hold on BLM lands. After doing a little research, I found this reference to taxing Colorado mining claims;

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I went to the Assessor's Office and complained about the high values and asked how they were determined along with an explanation of why adjacent claims were not being taxed. Well, now they are going to re-asses my claims and send me an updated valuation in a couple of weeks. Both the local BLM Field Office and the Mining Law Administration at the Colorado State BLM Office are looking into this matter as well, since they have never heard of it happening before.

Anyone else ever encounter this?

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- ASTROBLEME   Taxing Unpatented Mining Claims   May 8 2012, 05:05 PM
- - swizz   I am not sure if they can legally tax unpatented m...   May 9 2012, 07:04 AM
|- - swizz   QUOTE (swizz @ May 9 2012, 07:04 AM) From...   May 9 2012, 07:37 AM
- - swizz   furthermore.... How does Fremont County determine ...   May 9 2012, 07:53 AM
- - swizz   ... and finally Dear Fremont County, This is Color...   May 9 2012, 01:25 PM
- - swizz   .... and finally finally (but not finally) The qu...   May 9 2012, 02:14 PM
- - russau   Swizz SALUTE!   May 10 2012, 05:47 AM
- - ColoradoProspector   This is a real problem as I see it. A "tax...   May 10 2012, 07:19 AM
- - russau   well Dan we all know that those dirty miners are g...   May 10 2012, 01:18 PM
- - ASTROBLEME   The staff at BLM's Royal Gorge Field Office pu...   May 10 2012, 10:29 PM
- - ASTROBLEME   Colorado Constitution, Article 10, Taxpayer's ...   May 10 2012, 11:42 PM
|- - Caveman   QUOTE (ASTROBLEME @ May 11 2012, 12:42 AM...   May 11 2012, 09:10 AM
|- - leonard   QUOTE (ASTROBLEME @ May 10 2012, 10:42 PM...   May 11 2012, 10:08 AM
- - swizz   Astro, Great work!! Thanks for the posted ...   May 14 2012, 08:05 AM
- - ASTROBLEME   Having heard nothing after I protested in person, ...   Jun 14 2012, 03:58 PM
- - Mrs.CP   Excelent news and good job asserting your rights a...   Jun 14 2012, 04:02 PM
- - ASTROBLEME   Mrs. CP, Thanks for the acknowledgement but I cou...   Jun 14 2012, 07:04 PM
|- - ColoradoProspector   Thanks for your help with info, but this issue was...   Nov 27 2014, 04:44 PM
- - swizz   This is the best news possible and thank you for t...   Jun 22 2012, 11:18 AM
- - Clay Diggins   The mining claim is not being taxed. As others hav...   Nov 21 2014, 07:35 PM


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