Okla. Stat. tit. 68, § 68-2844
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Omitted property - Entry on assessment rolls and tax
Official statutory text
rolls - Assessments - Arrearages - Taxing during current year.
A. If any real, personal, railroad, air carrier or public
service corporation property is omitted in the assessment of any
prior year or years, and the property thereby escapes just and
proper taxation, at any time and as soon as such omission is
discovered, the county assessor or the county board of equalization,
or the State Board of Equalization in the case of public service
corporation property or railroad and air carrier property, whose
duty it is to assess the class of property which has been omitted,
shall at any time cause such property to be entered on the
assessment rolls and tax rolls for the year or years omitted, not to
exceed the last fifteen (15) years as to real property and the last
three (3) years as to personal property, and shall, after reasonable
notice to the parties affected, in order that they be heard, assess
such omitted property for said periods and cause to be extended
against the same on the tax rolls for the current year all arrearage
of taxes properly accruing against it, including therein interest
thereon at the rate of twelve percent (12%) per annum from the time
such tax should have become delinquent.
B. If any tax on property subject to taxation is prevented from
being collected for any year or years by reason of any erroneous
proceedings, or failure to give notice, or otherwise, the amount of
such tax which such property should have paid or should have been
paid thereon shall be added to the tax on such property for the
current year, and if for want of sufficient time or for any cause
such assessment cannot be entered, and the tax thereon extended on
the tax rolls for the current year, the same shall be done the
following year.
A. If any real, personal, railroad, air carrier or public
service corporation property is omitted in the assessment of any
prior year or years, and the property thereby escapes just and
proper taxation, at any time and as soon as such omission is
discovered, the county assessor or the county board of equalization,
or the State Board of Equalization in the case of public service
corporation property or railroad and air carrier property, whose
duty it is to assess the class of property which has been omitted,
shall at any time cause such property to be entered on the
assessment rolls and tax rolls for the year or years omitted, not to
exceed the last fifteen (15) years as to real property and the last
three (3) years as to personal property, and shall, after reasonable
notice to the parties affected, in order that they be heard, assess
such omitted property for said periods and cause to be extended
against the same on the tax rolls for the current year all arrearage
of taxes properly accruing against it, including therein interest
thereon at the rate of twelve percent (12%) per annum from the time
such tax should have become delinquent.
B. If any tax on property subject to taxation is prevented from
being collected for any year or years by reason of any erroneous
proceedings, or failure to give notice, or otherwise, the amount of
such tax which such property should have paid or should have been
paid thereon shall be added to the tax on such property for the
current year, and if for want of sufficient time or for any cause
such assessment cannot be entered, and the tax thereon extended on
the tax rolls for the current year, the same shall be done the
following year.
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