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Alton board authorizes town clerk to correct 2022–2023 tax-lien interest coding
Summary
The Alton Town Board of Selectmen gave the town clerk permission to reverse and reprocess tax-lien payments affected by a software-code error so taxpayers will be charged the legally updated interest rate for 2022 and 2023.
The Alton Town Board of Selectmen on Sept. 9 authorized the town clerk and tax collector to correct a software coding error that led some taxpayers to be charged an outdated tax-lien interest rate for 2022 and 2023. Town Clerk and Tax Collector Jen told the board the mistake stemmed from the town's migration to new financial software and that state law changed the lien interest rate in 2019.
Jen explained the software had two codes, “tax l” and “tax l…
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