certificate of error
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certificate of error | The county auditor shall correct errors which may at any time be discovered in the tax duplicates for any one or more of the following reasons: 1. The description of the real property was in error; 2. The assessment was against the wrong person; 3. Taxes on the same property were charged more than one time in the same year; 4. There was mathematical error in computing the taxes or penalties on the taxes; 5. There was an error in carrying delinquent taxes forward from one tax duplicate to another; 6. The taxes, as a matter of law, were illegal; 7. There was a mathematical error in computing an assessment; or 8. Through the error of omission by any state or county officer, the taxpayer was not given credit for an exemption or deduction permitted by law. |