Alaska's top court upheld an earlier superior court ruling that Bingman owed the City of Dillingham nearly $300,000 in unpaid sales taxes and utility fees.
KDLG: In a ruling issued this week, Alaska’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by James Bingman Sr. of Dillingham, who had challenged an earlier superior court’s ruling that he owed some $300,000 in back taxes and utility fees to the City of Dillingham.
The City has sinceforeclosed on Bingman’s properties, mostly rental units, and auctioned them off to recover the unpaid taxes and the costs of battling Bingman in court.
While the court dedicated seven written pages to Bingman’s appeal, the merit of his case met with no support from the justices, who called his arguments “frivolous” and his prior actions avoiding collecting and paying sales tax “unlawful.”
The court upheld the earlier ruling by Judge Pat Douglass “in all respects,” and said it would entertain a motion if the City of Dillingham should seek to recover its legal fees incurred in the appeal.