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WB&T MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. v. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF BOSTON

SJC-09940.

451 Mass. 716 (2008)

WB&T MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. v. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF BOSTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 2, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Brown for the taxpayer.

Adam Cederbaum for Board of Assessors of Boston.

Martha Coakley, Attorney General, & Kenneth W. Salinger, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, & BOTSFORD, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

For more than 300 years, "proportionable and reasonable assessments, rates and taxes" have been imposed and levied on the Commonwealth's inhabitants and residents, and the estates lying within its borders. 1691 Charter of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay.1,2 Among the properties now exempted by statute from those levies are those that are owned...

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