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Melrose mayor urges committee to approve means-tested senior property tax exemption
Summary
Melrose Mayor Jen Gregoritis told the Joint Committee on Revenue the city enacted a local means-tested exemption that has provided property tax relief to 209 senior households and asks the legislature to authorize the measure statewide by passing House 3979.
Melrose Mayor Jen Gregoritis asked the Joint Committee on Revenue to report favorably on House 3979, a home-rule petition that would authorize the City of Melrose to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption tied to the Massachusetts senior circuit breaker tax credit.
The exemption, Gregoritis told the committee, has delivered property tax relief to “209 senior households, most for multiple years,” after the City…
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