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Tenant cannot dispute tax without appeal

Tenant cannot dispute tax without appeal

Tenant cannot dispute tax without appeal

A tenant who opposes the imposition of real estate on property it leased from a church cannot dispute the tax when it failed to file an appeal from the imposition within the time allotted by statute, an appellate court in Massachusetts has ruled. It has also ruled that the tenant could not sue the city for allegedly wrong information given by the City’s tax assessor when the tenant originally sought to resolve the situation. In 2016, Educational Divide Reform entered into a lease with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston to rent property in Cambridge. Under the lease, EDR was responsible for paying any property tax assessed on the building. In June 2018, the church received a property...

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