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Nearly a year later, Somerville Alderman Andrew Puglia discovered that the property on Charnwood Road was owned by John's older sister Marie, and that the property's beneficiaries were listed on the property deed as "John J. Howe and Kristen Howe." Thus assessor Howe lowered the taxes on a piece of property owned by his own family...
Democratic State Rep. Marie E. Howe of Somerville and her younger brother John J. Howe, a Somerville property tax assessor, may have systematically used tax assessments to reward personal friends and punish political opponents, an examination of the city's tax records shows...
...people get those tax bills on their meager homes that demand another $1,500 a year, they get a cloud over their heads. Many of them give up the spirit and quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians don't do that, run people out of their homes for no reason. It is a goddamned crime. It is grand-felony theft...
Many residents rushed to their local assessor's office to find out what they will have to pay next December if Proposition 13 fails. There were some devastating jolts. One newcomer to West Hollywood paid $3,700 in 1977 on his two-bedroom, $120,000 house; this year he could pay more than $7,000. Another new Californian was taxed $5,500 on his three-bedroom, $165,000 Beverly Hills house in 1975; his tax bill could be $14,600 this year. The outcry by aroused Californians over such hikes has given a last-minute surge...
...furious homeowners forced the city council in July to pass acts that exempt the aged, blind and disabled from some of the increases, and to lop $6,000 off the assessed value of every single-family house. In the upstate New York hamlet of Hardenburgh, residents have dodged the assessor by joining a California mail-order outfit called the "Universal Life Church" and declaring their homes to be churches; they qualify for an exemption on the basis of the U.S. Constitution, which has been interpreted to prohibit the taxation of religious property...