Such auditors shall have the authority to:

(1) Ascertain any unassessed personal property or personal property assessed on a wrong or improper basis, or where such assessment on personal property was obtained by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation or concealment, but only for the current year for which such audit is made; and

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 9-3-203

  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) Report the same to the comptroller of the treasury, whose duty it is to direct the trustee of the county in which such property is located to enter the same on the tax books of such county and the same to be the assessment in such county wherein is such personal property, and to be collected in the same way and manner as other property assessed for taxation.