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MUN. OF ANCHORAGE v. ALASKA DISTRIBUTORS CO.

No. S-1047.

725 P.2d 692 (1986)

MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE, Appellant, v. ALASKA DISTRIBUTORS CO., a Foreign Corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 19, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret J. Rawitz, Asst. Mun. Atty., Donald W. Edwards, Deputy Mun. Atty., and Jerry Wertzbaugher, Mun. Atty., Anchorage, for appellant.

Edward L. Miner, Law Offices of Vincent Vitale, Anchorage, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

The parties dispute whether a municipality may retroactively tax a warehouse addition as "escaped property" when it timely assessed and taxed other improvements on the real property. We hold that the municipality may so tax the warehouse under the particular circumstances of this case.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Appellee Alaska Distributors Co. (ADCO) owns improved property in Anchorage. In 1979, ADCO built an addition...

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