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Taxpayer advocate urges fixes to property‑tax credit, local option tax administration and data practices
Summary
Jeff Dooley, the state taxpayer advocate, described recurring problems with property‑tax credit rules in divorce cases, municipal overpayment refunds, and burdens on businesses from local option taxes; he also highlighted departmental improvements in case tracking and language‑access services.
Jeff Dooley, taxpayer advocate at the Vermont Department of Taxes, outlined a slate of administrative and statutory issues the department is watching and that are included or referenced in the miscellaneous tax bill.
Dooley said his office received about 70 extraordinary relief requests in the past year and granted relief in 63 cases. He focused members’ attention on the property‑tax credit form’s treatment of divorce, saying it can require an individual to include a nonresident spouse’s income and claim 50% ownership for the…
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