By Nicole Montesano • Staff Writer • 

County, Riverbend at odds over taxes

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Waste Management/Riverbend's CEO David Steiner received upwards of 10 million dollars compensation in 2014. The back taxes owed Yamhill County are pretty piddly by comparison.

Jackie Lang says the investment for the renewable energy plant is "approximately $10 million. The County, accordingly, is valuing one parcel at 4.3 million and the second parcel at 5.7 million... equaling 10 million.

So what is Riverbend's rationale for proposing that the back taxes be stricken altogether or reduced by at least 50 per cent?

Does it have anything to do with Waste Management/Riverbend's expansion arguments of how much they care about Yamhill County, what a great neighbor the dump is, and what incredible economic benefits the garbage dump brings to the area?

If you or I owed back taxes we would have to pay them. The County should not reduce taxes for this mega-rich Texas Corporation. After all, with all the money that Waste Management makes dumping Portland Metro's trash on Yamhill County farmland, they should have no trouble paying their Yamhill County taxes.

E.J. Farrar

Why doesn't Riverbend take some of the money they've been doling out to our cities and just pay their taxes like everyone else?

Lulu

Why are Waste Management and Riverbend Landfill always screwing up?

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