Vero Beach finally filed its second late audit nearly four months past the due date, but the city’s finance staff still struggles with the most basic accounting duties, causing a new violation of state law for misstating taxes to be assessed.
An error resulted in a wrong property tax amount to be printed on Truth in Millage (or TRIM) notices sent out to taxpayers. Apparently no one double-checked the numbers entered into the Florida Department of Revenue portal system.
Unfortunately, this error once again put Vero Beach on a state bureaucrat’s desk as a problem to handle. The city has twice been late in filing mandatory audits and financial reports, resulting in the withholding – and in one case the forfeiture – of state sales tax funding…