Interesting little nuggets contained in The Charlotte Business Journal’s exploration of big unpaid tax bills among Charlotte’s big time developers. As we began tracking last month, the almost $600K tax bill for the EpiCentre is the largest bill still not paid. Here’s what owner Afshin Ghazi told CBJ as to why:

Ghazi says he’s only just received proper notice for the uptown retail, office and entertainment complex. “We just got our tax bill last week,” he says. “We went through the appeal process of valuation. And then they sent it to the wrong place last week. They sent it to Atlanta. I’ve no business in Atlanta.”

County records indicate that the bill was sent to the Atlanta office of Fellers, Schewe, Scott & Roberts, Inc. The law firm helps property owners contest property valuations, boasting:

we have reduced our clients’ property tax liability by millions of dollars. Our success has included tax reductions for owners of high-rise office buildings, hotels, apartments, shopping malls, suburban shopping centers, hospitals, automobile dealerships, banks, single family homes, industrial parks, and manufacturing plants, just to name a few.

Ghazi told CBJ he contested the county’s valuation of the EpiCentre and his tax bill just happens to wind up at some random Atlanta PO box belonging to a tax-contesting law firm? I want to hear Ghazi say he did not hire Fellers, Schewe, Scott & Roberts.

Otherwise he did have business in Atlanta.

More baffling is that the tax due on the EpiCentre is for a valuation of only $43.5m. County records indicate that a valuation of $61.1m. was sent to Fellers, Schewe and to another local attorneys office on June 1 of last year. It was appealed and reviewed and came back in August with the same $61.1m. valuation.

Also turns out that the owner of the New Old Coliseum site we told you about still has not paid the tax bill on that parcel, also after trying to get a re-val downward. Shades of things to come in 2011 once everyone gets their new valuations, methinks.

Bonus Observation: Interesting that both the EpiCentre parcel — site of the old convention center — and the New Old Coliseum site were sold to developers by the city of Charlotte.