If you plan to rent your house this summer, be prepared for a change in the State Law effective July 1, 2019. On December 28, 2018, Governor Baker signed An Act Regulating and Insuring Short-Term Rentals which sets forth a comprehensive framework for the regulation of short-term rentals. The new law has several new requirements
In a decision issued last week, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that New England Forestry Foundation, Inc. (NEFF) is a qualifying charitable organization whose forest land is exempt from property taxes under M.G.L. c. 59, § 5, clause third. In so ruling, the SJC reversed a contrary decision of the state Appellate Tax Board (ATB).
NEFF owns
Recently, in Town of Danvers v. Rogers, the Massachusetts Appeals Court issued an unpublished decision (pdf) upholding the Land Court’s denial of an estate’s motion to vacate a judgment for the plaintiff town in a tax lien foreclosure proceeding. Rackemann filed an amicus brief (pdf) on behalf of the Danvers Housing Authority – a potential beneficiary of the taking – urging the
In a decision that is reverberating across the state, the Appeals Court, in Denver Street LLC v. Town of Saugus (pdf), has affirmed a Superior Court ruling that the Town of Saugus’s sewer inflow and infiltration (I&I) “reduction contribution”
is an illegal tax, rather than a permissible fee. Since most cities and towns in Massachusetts impose similar charges, this decision will add to