The city has lost over $2.8 Million in city tax revenues over the past decade. The county has lost almost a million in revenue for the state in the past decade.

The equity in taxation desired by voters with the original square footage taxes has been sabotaged by lax internal controls in the city’s non-public set of books.

Many of these properties are rentals, so landlords benefit.

Many of these homes have been added onto and remodeled, so the wealthy benefit.

The average homeowner suffers economically when all available taxes are not collected from these 500, because when the City asks voters to approve new taxes, the average homeowner pays a greater tax burden than the 500 undercharged.

The house numbers have been redacted to give the homeowners anonymity, but BATE is willing to disclose the exact addresses when the City agrees to reform.

The List of 500 is only a portion of the undercharges in the City. BATE volunteers have not collected and quantified the data for whole city’s undercharges yet. It is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process that by ordinance, the City Manager should direct City staff to do themselves.