Former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, who recently stepped down and is expected to enter the 2026 race for governor, has asked the Alaska Public Offices Commission for an exemption in filing certain required financial disclosures.
At issue is Taylor’s extensive rental property business; he and his wife own Inlet Towers in Anchorage. According to correspondence between Taylor, his wife Jodi, and APOC staff, the Taylors own 234 rental units, most of which had been previously managed by a third-party company. State law requires public officials to disclose all income over $1,000, including the names of tenants who pay that amount or more annually, the exact rental payments, and the name of the property manager if it is not the official or a family member.
Taylor, while still attorney general, submitted a request for an exemption on March 17, the deadline for annual disclosures, citing the cumbersome nature of manually entering hundreds of rental income records into APOC’s electronic filing system. He noted that while other sections of the disclosure form allow for file uploads, the rental income section does not. “My filing in regards to rental income would be extensive due to the number of tenants and the turnover among tenants and would take a significant amount of time to enter by hand,” Taylor wrote…