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Chapter 61 is a voluntary current use program designed by the Massachusetts Legislature to tax real property in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at its resources value rather than its highest and best use (development) value. Landowners who enroll their land in the program receive property tax reductions in exchange for a lien on their ...
The Massachusetts ATB hears and decides cases on appeal from state and local taxing authorities. It was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1929 to relieve the Superior Court of its large volume of tax appeals and to provide taxpayers with a less expensive and more expedient means of appeal. The ATB is the locus of the overall ...
For instance, poll taxes made up from one-third to one-half of the tax revenue of colonial Massachusetts. Property taxes assumed a larger share of tax revenues as land values rose when population increases encouraged settlement of the American West. [5] Some western states found no need for poll tax requirements; but poll taxes and payment ...
Even with a private meeting to discuss movement on stalled legislative initiatives, Massachusetts lawmakers are no closer to getting it done
In his fiscal 2023 budget proposal, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is hoping to provide residents with much-needed financial relief. Using the $700 million surplus from state tax revenues and...
The State Income Tax Repeal, also known as Massachusetts Question 1, was one of the 2008 ballot measures that appeared on the November 4, 2008 ballot in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. [1] Voters were asked whether or not they approved of the proposed measure which, if it had passed, would have ended the 5.3% income tax in Massachusetts on ...
Newly elected Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey neither confirmed nor denied the possibility of issuing new state stimulus checks, but the subject was broached during her first leadership meeting...
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades.