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TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT?D): Auditor candidate claimed two property tax exemptions: B?

By Glenn Reynolds

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): Auditor candidate claimed two property tax exemptions: Bump entitled to only one, state officials say. “Suzanne M. Bump, the Democratic nominee for state auditor, considers the Berkshire town of Great Barrington her home. She and her husband vote and register their cars there. It is the address she lists on the Nov. 2 ballot. Because of that, she receives a benefit: exemption from paying a personal property tax levied on homeowners who are not full-time residents. But Bump and her husband, Paul F. McDevitt, have saved more than $6,000 in Boston property taxes since 2006 by reporting that a condominium they own in South Boston is their principal residence, according to tax and property records examined by the Globe.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).