08-29-2014, 04:53 PM
That's a very astute comment, Rob.
She made that big huhu which boiled down to "she doesn't recognize how important I think I am" and I will file a complaint that she didn't treat me courteously enough.
I'm not sure if anyone has pointed out how she put out a clear contradiction in her story on the HO exemption, after she had benefit of counsel too.
First, Tiffany was caught off guard at a forum when challenged as to whether she lives in District 5 with that exemption on a Hilo house. At that point, she sees one fort to defend and that is the charge she lives in Hilo. So she emphatically states she has lived in Hawaiian Acres with her husband for years now.
Then she admits (in the same response) that she and her husband were aware that they had two exemptions filed when a married couple can only have one, and they had been trying to be "akamai" and put that in the right place for their marriage for the last couple years.
After that deer in the headlights moment, her attorney gets the video of her response pulled from Youtube. Then she gets interviewed by the Trib, and her response on the exemption is completely inconsistent.
Now she has found out she has a property tax problem for claiming the Hilo house as her residence. First she says she may have stayed at the Hilo house enough days in some years to make the exemption legit, in direct contradiction to saying the whole idea she lived in Hilo was ridiculous.
Then she pulls out a "blonde" defense and says, well, she had no idea that exemption she filed in 2004 was still active. How would she know, when her property taxes get paid through her mortgage? Ignoring the fact she gets a tax bill showing the exempted amount every year.
She also says her husband does NOT take an exemption, which is slimy evasion using present tense. Tax records show he did take an exemption until 2012. Not only she did exempt a house where she didn't live, but they enjoyed a double exemption for something like 5-6 years.
The biggest inconsistency is when she shrugs it off in the HTH interview, saying she was never really cognizant of the rules on homeowner exemptions, until the County sent a letter in 2014, to which she immediately responded.
But she said in the forum that both she and her husband were aware that they could only have one exemption between them, and had been addressing the issue for a couple years (or could it be they were always aware but they got caught by the County?), so they had worked out which was best for their marriage and switched it around.
Really, how do you become "akamai" regarding a double exemption dilemma, if you aren't aware that you have an exemption on your old house? If you think you are only taking an exemption on his house, then why the need to figure it out which one keeps the exemption? How do you become "akamai" but not cognizant of the rules?
You're either clueless or akaimai. Not both.
She said they were trying to do the "karmatically correct" thing. Well, the way they handled the double exemption problem was to remove her husband's perfectly legal exemption, and to keep the better exemption that was not legal. That's what they did in 2011. The records don't lie.
However, the County finally went over the exemption filings and examined the red flags and sent out "come into compliance" letters, two years after their switch, and caught them (possibly for the second time).
So she pulled it off the Hilo house just in time to file her papers, the same as she fixed her wrong district voter registration when she decided to run in District 5 and needed to officially live where she actually lives (a first for her).
It's unfortunate that she might get away with it if the voters are apathetic and don't hear about the lies and cheating, or don't care.
Kathy
She made that big huhu which boiled down to "she doesn't recognize how important I think I am" and I will file a complaint that she didn't treat me courteously enough.
I'm not sure if anyone has pointed out how she put out a clear contradiction in her story on the HO exemption, after she had benefit of counsel too.
First, Tiffany was caught off guard at a forum when challenged as to whether she lives in District 5 with that exemption on a Hilo house. At that point, she sees one fort to defend and that is the charge she lives in Hilo. So she emphatically states she has lived in Hawaiian Acres with her husband for years now.
Then she admits (in the same response) that she and her husband were aware that they had two exemptions filed when a married couple can only have one, and they had been trying to be "akamai" and put that in the right place for their marriage for the last couple years.
After that deer in the headlights moment, her attorney gets the video of her response pulled from Youtube. Then she gets interviewed by the Trib, and her response on the exemption is completely inconsistent.
Now she has found out she has a property tax problem for claiming the Hilo house as her residence. First she says she may have stayed at the Hilo house enough days in some years to make the exemption legit, in direct contradiction to saying the whole idea she lived in Hilo was ridiculous.
Then she pulls out a "blonde" defense and says, well, she had no idea that exemption she filed in 2004 was still active. How would she know, when her property taxes get paid through her mortgage? Ignoring the fact she gets a tax bill showing the exempted amount every year.
She also says her husband does NOT take an exemption, which is slimy evasion using present tense. Tax records show he did take an exemption until 2012. Not only she did exempt a house where she didn't live, but they enjoyed a double exemption for something like 5-6 years.
The biggest inconsistency is when she shrugs it off in the HTH interview, saying she was never really cognizant of the rules on homeowner exemptions, until the County sent a letter in 2014, to which she immediately responded.
But she said in the forum that both she and her husband were aware that they could only have one exemption between them, and had been addressing the issue for a couple years (or could it be they were always aware but they got caught by the County?), so they had worked out which was best for their marriage and switched it around.
Really, how do you become "akamai" regarding a double exemption dilemma, if you aren't aware that you have an exemption on your old house? If you think you are only taking an exemption on his house, then why the need to figure it out which one keeps the exemption? How do you become "akamai" but not cognizant of the rules?
You're either clueless or akaimai. Not both.
She said they were trying to do the "karmatically correct" thing. Well, the way they handled the double exemption problem was to remove her husband's perfectly legal exemption, and to keep the better exemption that was not legal. That's what they did in 2011. The records don't lie.
However, the County finally went over the exemption filings and examined the red flags and sent out "come into compliance" letters, two years after their switch, and caught them (possibly for the second time).
So she pulled it off the Hilo house just in time to file her papers, the same as she fixed her wrong district voter registration when she decided to run in District 5 and needed to officially live where she actually lives (a first for her).
It's unfortunate that she might get away with it if the voters are apathetic and don't hear about the lies and cheating, or don't care.
Kathy