In re Appeal of Becky King Props., LLC

CourtCourt of Appeals of North Carolina
DecidedJuly 1, 2014
Docket13-1107
StatusPublished

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In re Appeal of Becky King Props., LLC, (N.C. Ct. App. 2014).

Opinion

NO. COA 13-1107

NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS

Fi1ed: 1 Ju1y 2014

In the Matter of the Appea1 of:

Becky King Properties, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation And Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Coasta1 Communities at Seawatch, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Coasta1 Communities at Ocean Ridge P1antation, LLC from the Decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Coasta1 Communities Deve1opment, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

From the North Caro1ina Property Tax Commission 12 PTC 1074

From The North Caro1ina Property Tax Commission 12 PTC 1075

From The North Caro1ina Property Tax Commission 12 PTC 1076

From the North Caro1ina Property Tax Commission 12 PTC 1077

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Coasta1 Deve1opment & Rea1ty Bui1der, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for

Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Drewmark Investments, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and

Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Eag1e Point, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and

Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Eastern Caro1ina’s Construction & Deve1opment, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and

Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Georgetown Land & Timber, LLC from the decision of the

From The North Caro1ina Property Tax Commission 12 PTC 1079

From The Property 12

From The

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1080

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1081

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1082

North Caro1ina

Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: MAS Properties, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and

Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: McDona1d Deve1opment Associates, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and

Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Ocean Is1e Pa1ms, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and

Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Pointe West, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and

Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

Property 12

Tax Commission PTC 1083

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1084

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1085

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1086

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1087

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Remuda Run, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Rivers Edge Go1f C1ub & P1antation, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: SeaScape at Ho1den P1antation, LLC from the decision of the

Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review

Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Seawatch at Sunset Harbor, LLC from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

In the Matter of the Appea1 of: Wi11iam E. Saunders Jr., Trustee from the decision of the Brunswick County Board of Equa1ization and Review Concerning the Va1uation and Taxation of Rea1 Property for Tax Year 2012

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1088

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1089

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1090

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1091

North Caro1ina Tax Commission PTC 1092

Appeal by Brunswick County from orders entered by the Property Tax Commission on 17 May 2013. Heard in the Court of Appeals 4

March 2014.

Elaine Jordan for taxpayer-appellees.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, by Charles C. Meeker and

Jamie S. Schwedler and Office of County Attorney, by Bryan W.

Batton for defendant-appellant.

STEELMAN, Judge.

where the County appeals from interlocutory orders of the Property Tax Commission, its appeals must be dismissed. Appeals from_ the Commission are not subject to a “substantial riqht” exception, and the County’s contentions that the Commission lacked subject matter jurisdiction to enter the orders, and that the orders are therefore void, do not create a right to immediate review of the orders.

l. Factual and Procedural Background

In 2012 appellant Brunswick County (“County”) conducted a revaluation of real property in the county for purposes of establishing ad valorem property tax assessments. Following the revaluation, taxpayers Becky King Properties, LLC; Coastal Communities at Seawatch, LLC; Coastal Communities at Ocean Ridge

Plantation, LLC; Coastal Communities Development, LLC; Coastal

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Development & Realty Builder, LLC; Drewmark lnvestments, LLC; Eagle Point, LLC; Eastern Carolina’s Construction & Development, LLC; Georgetown Land & Timber, LLC; MAS Properties, LLC; McDonald Development Associates, LLC; Ocean lsle Palms, LLC; Pointe West, LLC; Remuda Run, LLC; Rivers Edge Golf Club & Plantation, LLC; SeaScape at Holden Plantation, LLC; Seawatch at Sunset Harbor, LLC; and william E. Saunders Jr., Trustee (collectively, Taxpayers) appealed to the Brunswick County Board of Equalization and Review. ln early July 2012 the Board of Equalization and Review mailed decisions to Taxpayers, denying their appeals. On 1 August 2012 Taxpayers sent notices of appeal to the North Carolina Property Tax Commission (“Commission”) via United Parcel Service Next Day Air. Commission received Taxpayers’ notices of appeal on 2 August 2012.

On 13 August 2012 County filed motions to dismiss Taxpayers’ appeals to Commission for failure to file their appeals in a timely manner. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-290(e) requires that a notice of appeal “from a board of equalization and review shall be filed with the Property Tax Commission within 30 days after the date the board mailed a notice of its decision to the property owner.” County asserted that Taxpayers filed their notices of appeal on the 31“ day and thus failed to comply with the 30 day reguirement.

On 19 October 2012 Commission conducted a hearing on County’s

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