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By ending home equity theft in Massachusetts and everywhere it occurs, homeowners will no longer have to fear that a small tax debt could deprive them of their life’s savings.
The Supreme Court, in a rare unanimous ruling, said it was unconstitutional for a local government in Minnesota to keep all of the money it got when it sold a condo seized from the owner due to unpaid taxes.
Sixty-seven-year-old Deborah Foss has spent the winter living out of her car in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Billed for a college class she never took UMass Boston plays hardball with a student who signed up for an online course but never attended By Sean P. Murphy Globe Staff,Updated March 14, 2021, 3:58 p.m. Email to a Friend Christina Carpino's daughter, Maya Hazarikas, was billed $1,527 for a summer course she thought she had canceled. Above, Carpino displays the bill from UMass Boston.Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Like thousands of other students at American University in Washington, Maya Hazarika was abruptly ordered to evacuate campus last year when the pandemic first hit. She wound up back with...
In some states, missing a tax payment could cost you your home. That’s exactly what happened to one family from Easton, Massachusetts. Although brothers Neil and Mark Mucciaccio owned their house outright, they struggled to keep up with rising property taxes when their family experienced several medical and financial hardships. When the brothers failed to pay their 2016 taxes, the city responded by placing a lien on their $276,000 property, imposing exorbitant interest on the debt, and selling that lien to a private investor for about $4,300. Much to the brothers’ shock, the private inv...