Property Tax Time

Its time to pay property taxes.  Everyone pays about $15.00 per thousand on their total assessed land and dwelling property value.  Sounds fair.  However, some property owners in Bend have a reduced assessment value that makes a big difference in tax due.  Thirteen owners of more than 50 acres in a residential zoned area of Bend have collectively reduced the total assessed value on XX  acres from about $4 million to about $3,000.00.  Taxes from about $60,000.00 to about $900.00.  It is legal tax avoidance.  Is it reasonable, and fair? 

Deschutes county tax records are public documents available to everyone at the county assessor website DIAL system.   My research is based on DIAL system facts and Oregon laws and rules and verifiable fact.  

Thirteen lots with the reduced tax assessment and tax bill are all located on Bachelor View Road.  A private access patrolled road with large acreage lots and homes ranging from x to x on the west side of the Deschutes River on the very south end of Bend.   X lots are bare land, the remainder have dwellings.