Source: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/2007/311.806
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ORS 311.806 - Refund of taxes on real and personal property - 2007 Oregon Revised Statutes
2007 ORS Vol. 8 Chapter 311 Section 311.806
2007 ORS 311.806¹
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the county governing body shall refund, out of the refund reserve account provided in ORS 311.807 (Refund reserve account), or the unsegregated tax collections account provided in ORS 311.385 (Deposit in unsegregated tax collections account), taxes on property collected by an assessor or tax collector pursuant to a levy of the assessor or of any taxing district or tax levying body or pursuant to ORS 311.255 (Taxes, other charges of taxing agencies and water improvement company charges collected with county taxes), plus interest as provided in ORS 311.812 (No interest on refunds under ORS 311.806), in the following cases:
(d) Whenever a change in the value of property is made under ORS 309.115 (Effect of property value correction upon appeal) upon resolution of an appeal and no separate appeal of the value of the property was taken for the year of the change:
(f) Except as provided in ORS 310.143 (Certification of taxes on taxable property subject to 1990 Measure 5 limits), to the owner of record on the tax roll at the time of refund, whenever, through excusable neglect or through an error subject to correction under ORS 311.205 (Correcting errors or omissions in rolls), taxes on property are paid in excess of the amount legally chargeable, limited to the amount of money collected in excess of the amount actually due; or
(g) Except as provided in ORS 311.808 (Refund on real property or manufactured structure), to the payer of the tax whenever any person pays taxes on the property of another by mistake of any kind.
(2)(a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subsection, a refund of taxes may not be allowed or made after six years from the assessment date for the tax year for which the taxes were collected. A refund under this subsection may be paid only to the extent that a refund under subsection (4) of this section has not been paid.
(b) A refund of taxes may be allowed or made under subsection (1)(f) or (g) of this section after the period described in paragraph (a) of this subsection if, before the expiration of the period, a written claim for refund of the taxes is filed by the taxpayer with the county governing body.
(c) The county governing body shall order a refund of taxes to be paid as specified in subsection (1) of this section without the filing of a written claim and without regard to the period specified under paragraph (a) of this subsection upon receipt of a copy of an order by the Department of Revenue, the Oregon Tax Court or the Supreme Court that constitutes a final determination that is not subject to appeal.
(3)(a) Upon request of the owner or an owner of any taxable property or the person in whose name the property is assessed, or the owner of record on the tax roll at the time of refund, whichever is applicable, and with the approval of the tax collector, the county governing body may authorize refunds payable under subsection (1)(a) to (e) of this section to be made by crediting the total tax liability account of the requester with the amount of the refund. The total tax liability account is the total amount of tax that has been extended or charged against a particular property tax account as limited by section 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution.
(b) In the case of a refund or credit payable to a single requester that results from an order constituting a final determination of a matter as described under subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) of this section, a county governing body may elect to pay the refund or apply the credit in equal periodic installments over not more than the five-year period that begins on the date that the order is issued if the amount to be refunded or credited exceeds the lesser of $250,000 or one-quarter of one percent of the total amount of taxes on property imposed within the county within the limits of section 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, as listed on the certificate last prepared under ORS 311.105 (Certificate of taxes levied or imposed).
(c) If a county governing body elects to pay a refund or credit under the provisions of paragraph (b) of this subsection, and the election will result in a hardship to a requester, the requester may appeal the election to the tax court as provided in ORS 305.404 (Oregon Tax Court) to 305.560 (Appeals procedure generally).
(4)(a) The tax collector shall refund taxes paid on a property value, a claim for exemption or a claim for cancellation of a property tax exemption if:
(d) If, after taking into account the amount refunded under this subsection, the final resolution of the controversy after appeal results in additional taxes due on the property, the additional taxes shall be billed and collected as provided in ORS 311.513 (Collection of taxes due upon resolution of appeal).
(5) Immediately upon payment of the refund and any interest thereon, the tax collector shall make the necessary correcting entries in the records of the office of the tax collector. ORS 294.305 (Sections constituting Local Budget Law) to 294.565 (Failure to file copy of required budget, reports or other documents) do not apply to refunds made out of the refund reserve account or the unsegregated tax collections account.
(6) A refund is not required under this section for any tax year if the amount of the refund would be $10 or less. Any amount not refunded under this subsection shall be distributed to taxing districts in the same manner that other taxes are distributed.
(7) As used in this section, "owner of record on the tax roll at the time of refund" means the owner or an owner of the property or the person in whose name the property is assessed on the tax roll last certified and delivered to the tax collector under ORS 311.105 (Certificate of taxes levied or imposed) and 311.115 (Delivery of assessment roll to tax collector). [1959 c.554 §2 (enacted in lieu of 311.805); 1961 c.533 §50; 1971 c.737 §3; 1973 c.347 §1; 1975 c.395 §3; 1979 c.702 §1; 1985 c.162 §10; 1991 c.459 §260; 1993 c.6 §3; 1993 c.270 §60; 1995 c.650 §71; 1997 c.541 §§295,296; 2003 c.38 §1; 2005 c.394 §1; 2007 c.364 §1]
Note: Section 2, chapter 364, Oregon Laws 2007, provides:
Sec. 2. The amendments to ORS 311.806 (Refund of taxes on real and personal property) by section 1 of this 2007 Act apply to appeals relating to property tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2007, and to property tax appeals pending final resolution on the effective date of this 2007 Act [September 27, 2007]. [2007 c.364 §2]
Where taxpayer did not exhaust administrative and legal remedies within time allowed, Tax Court lacked jurisdic­tion to try refund claims on merits, despite fact that taxpayer relied on Revenue Depart­ment's erroneous timber cruise. Rosboro Lbr. Co. v. Heine, 8 OTR 221 (1979)
It is no de­fense to refund re­quired under this statute that ORS 311.220 (renumbered ORS 311.235 (Bona fide purchaser)) prohibited county from placing lien on prop­erty. PGE v. Dept. of Rev., 12 OTR 311 (1992)
ORS 305.580 (Exclusive remedies for certain determinations) preempts general refund pro­vi­sion where govern­ment mis­takenly classifies tax with regard to sec­tion 11b, Article XI, Oregon Constitu­tion. Smith v. Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, 12 OTR 377 (1993), aff'd 318 Or 302, 865 P2d 356 (1994)
Relief when failure to file for exemp­tion or cancella­tion of taxes or redetermina­tion of value was for good cause