Tuesday July 10 10:11 AM EDT L.A. County Targets Satellites in Out-of-This-World Tax Plan By NANCY VOGEL, TIMES STAFF WRITER SACRAMENTO -- Los Angeles County officials, realizing that there is no tax collector in outer space, hope to fill the void. Reaching 22,300 miles above the equator, boldly going where no tax collector has gone before, Los Angeles County Assessor Rick Auerbach is angling to impose property taxes on several satellites. Though never done before in California, the move is legal, say state and county tax attorneys. That's because, they say, nobody else is taxing the satellites and they are valuable property owned by a Los Angeles County-based company. Worth as much as $100 million each to Hughes Electronics in El Segundo, the satellites could bring in millions of dollars a year in taxes to schools and government. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/latimes/20010710/lo/l_a_county_targets_satellit...