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Gardner assessors report billing glitches: 500 deeds affected, 164 small personal-property bills abated

2143984 · January 22, 2025
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Summary

At a Jan. 21 meeting, the City of Gardner Board of Assessors heard an update from the assessor describing billing errors from the Munis system that sent roughly 500 tax bills to previous owners and generated 164 small personal-property bills that were later abated; the assessor said Vision end-of-year processing and website updates are complete.

The City of Gardner Board of Assessors on Jan. 21 heard an update from the assessor about recent billing errors and year-end work, including reissuing about 500 bills that had been sent to prior owners and abating 164 small personal-property bills that Munis incorrectly generated.

The assessor (name not stated) told the board that a file extract from the assessor’s property system, Vision, is used to create bills in the Munis billing system. The assessor said a glitch caused bills for properties sold in 2024 to go to the previous owner: “there were about 500 of…

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