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Arbitration – Pre-award interest

Taxation – Real estate valuation

Where the owner of a ranch-style dwelling on Clifton Street in Belmont claims that the property was overvalued by the town assessors for fiscal year 2007, the claim of overvaluation is …

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Client Advisory – Change to the Massachusetts Tax Exemption

Client Advisory – Massachusetts Sick Leave Law

On November 4, 2014, Massachusetts voters approved a law to provide earned sick leave to Massachusetts employees. The new sick leave law, to be enacted as G.L. Ch. 149, § 148C, affects all Massachusetts employers. Employers with eleven or more employees must provide employees paid sick time while employers with fewer than eleven employees must give employees unpaid sick time…

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Arbitration – Pre-award interest

Taxation – Condominium unit

Where the Belmont assessors valued a condominium unit at $1,311,000 for fiscal year 2009, the valuation was excessive by $111,000 and thus an abatement will be ordered. …

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Client Advisory – Change to the Massachusetts Tax Exemption

Client Advisory – Repeal of the Federal Estate Tax

As many of you have likely heard, the federal estate and generation-skipping transfer (“GST”) taxes have been repealed as of January 1, 2010. The repeal is the result of legislation passed in 2001, which provided for a gradual increase in the exemption amount to a maximum of $3.5 million in 2009 and culminating in the complete elimination of the estate and GST taxes for 2010. While it was widely expected that Congress would take action before the end of 2009 to resolve the fate of the estate tax, it failed to do so…

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