[duncan_idaho]

The State Tax Commission is overseen by Sec. of State's office. It's no coincidence that the day Bailey withdrew his lawsuit (because the County wanted to depose him, as part of his lawsuit, about illegal contact Bailey himself had with a Jackson County legislator) that tax commission issued these orders.

Part of the orders demand that every municipality that received "too much" from property taxes repay taxpayers for that.

Which sounds great and all (and is probably the right thing to do over time) but doesn't work for most municipalities.

That money has already been allocated and much of it has been spent - it's already in roads and equipment and salaries for police and fire and utility workers and other city employees.

Those orders are unlikely to stand as-is.

Jackson County bungled this. But the tax commission isn't "fixing" it. Just more "outside-KC area" oversight/slapping down on Jackson County and KC.