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Bernalillo County Assessor grants tax exemption to Veterans Integration Center, freeing tens of thousands for services
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Bernalillo County Assessor Damian Lara said his office granted a property tax exemption to the Veterans Integration Center, allowing the nonprofit to avoid an unanticipated roughly $56,000 tax bill and reallocate those funds to housing and services for unhoused veterans.
Bernalillo County Assessor Damian Lara announced that his office granted a property tax exemption to the Veterans Integration Center (VIC), a New Mexico nonprofit that provides temporary and transitional housing and supportive services to unhoused veterans.
"My office was able to grant the VIC a property tax exemption," Lara said, describing the administrative relief the assessor's office provided after the organization received an unexpected tax bill.
VIC CEO Brock Wolf said the organization faced a tax liability that "was scary" when they received it: "It was scary when we first got the bill for…
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