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.
Two primary residences. That's a big no-no. Par for the course for MA Democrats, though. With the notable examples of Senator Lurch ditching MA taxes on his yacht and US Reps apparently unaware of tax evasion schemes in their own homes, it's no surprise that Bump thought she could claim two houses as her primary residence. What's surprising, however - and here by "surprising" I mean galling - is that she saved something like $400 a year by claiming her second home as a primary residence.
I guess she was surprised that the media would dare to call her on it...
That is all.
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Hmmmmm. The best part of her response is the arrogance, and the assertion that there is a difference between principle and primary residence. Just what you folks need in Massachusetts as a freaking auditor!!
According to the tax regs, your Primary residence is the one where you stayed 183 days last year. ( You don't get to choose)
.... 5 days a week x the number of weeks that the legislature is in session for South Bostom....
or balance of the time in Great Barrington -- less however many days they spent on vacation somewhere else....
...... I suspect that they probably didn't spend 183 Days in either spot... invailadating BOTH exemptions.
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