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Assessor’s office reports $2.45 million in automatic penalties, expands audits and tax‑sale collections
Summary
The tax assessor and collections staff reported a broad set of revenue enforcement actions: 655 nonresponsive income/expense filings prompted about $2.445 million in 10% penalty assessments, municipal vehicle audits are underway, and a zoning/blight tax sale has collected more than $200,000 so far.
The tax assessor’s office reported several revenue‑recovery efforts and collection updates to the Finance and Claims Committee on Sept. 11, including income-and-expense (INE) penalty assessments, an ongoing motor vehicle audit program with Municipal Tax Services, a rapid tax sale for zoning and blight fees, and updates on exempt organizations, business personal property filings and cannabis receipts.
Tax assessor Paul Gorman told the committee the office issued INE requests to about 1,900 accounts this spring; roughly 655 did not file and the office issued penalty bills in August that total $2,445,206. Gorman said the state statute governing INE filings requires the assessor to impose a 10% penalty on assessments when owners fail to return required income and expense statements and that local officials have no statutory discretion to waive the penalty. He said the assessor’s office will add a…
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