I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how legislators think this is fair:

An Assembly committee today approved no-interest loans for Town of Oregon homeowners whose December property tax bills were $300 to $600 higher because of an error made by a state worker.

Last August, a state Department of Revenue official certified a number for Town of Oregon property that was $47 million higher than it should have been, unfairly boosting property tax bills because of a corresponding drop in state aid.
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The error boosted town property tax bills for schools, and lowered them for Village of Oregon property owners - a shift normally corrected when the next property tax bills are mailed. But Dane County legislators and Town of Oregon property owners, who said they were upset by unexpectedly high property tax bills a few days before Christmas, asked the Legislature to do more.
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The loans could total $578,000, if all town property owners applied for them, officials said. To repay the loans, property owners who got them would have those amounts added to their December tax bills, said Dane County Clerk Dave Gawenda.

I don't understand this.  If the bills were $300 - $600 higher than they should have been... don't you refund the money?  What's with the loan that has to get paid back?  Who's money is this anyway?

Would someone please explain this, because this looks like more government theft if you ask me.