It’s almost as if the District’s Office of Tax and Revenue has been looking for more ways to come across as a bunch of buffoons. Today the Examiner reports on how one persistent Capitol Hill resident, Noah Meyerson, was responsible for forcing the office to fix an error they had not even detected which allowed roughly 300 homeowners to skip out on an entire property tax payment last year.

The tax office is naturally downplaying the mistake, arguing the error only accounted for less than one percent of the city’s tax revenues. But given the year the Office of Tax and Revenue has had, small mistakes like these really do add up to a larger picture of total incompetence.

If you’re one of the lucky 300 who never received your property tax bill last fall, you have Noah Meyerson to thank for the fact that you will still have to pay those taxes. But don’t blame Noah — if we’re ever going to have a fully functioning city government, it’s going to take active citizens like him to hold our agencies accountable.

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