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How Utah County is addressing a 'human error' that will cost Provo residents, others more in taxes
Provo residents may have to pay more in property taxes than they originally thought after a costly mistake was recently discovered by the Utah County auditor’s office. Last week, Utah County officials were notified about an error in this year’s property tax bill that went out to residents in July. Richard Piatt, communications manager for Utah County Government said the error in the tax rate was a clerical mistake by the auditor's office. “Someone in the auditor's office manually entered the wrong tax rate information into the computer and it went out — so it was a human ...