Carter County Times
Should Carter County be collecting more tax revenue than it currently is? According to some sources, the answer is yes.
On Friday (December 30) the Ashland Daily Independent reported on allegations of malfeasance in the office of Carter County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) Leslie Kiser-Roseberry. Those allegations included claims that Kiser-Roseberry’s office undervalued property owned by her friends and family members in order to lower the property taxes they would be responsible for paying.
Kiser-Roseberry’s attorney Jeff Mando, however, disputed those claims. He said an independent third party assessed properties owned by Kiser-Roseberry and her son, and the figures provided by that third party were used to assess taxes on the properties.
A group of whistleblowers, including a person who claimed to be the source for the Ashland Daily article, spoke to the Carter County Times over the weekend to provide more context for those claims, however. They noted that properties owned by Kiser-Roseberry and her son, Benjamin Jackson, were assessed by an independent assessor, but only after concerns were raised in a recent audit. They showed the publicly available property cards for Kiser-Roseberry’s property and Jackson’s property, with the assessed value of those homes for tax purposes as documentation of the original assessed values.
Jackson’s home, for instance, was assessed at $37,500 through 2018, and at $45,000 from 2019 through 2022. The...
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