Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Property Tax Information

Our Customer Service Office often receives calls from out of state lenders looking for property tax information about particular parcels of real estate. In much of the country, local taxes are the responsibility of county government. Even when we had county government (which we don’t in most of Massachusetts anymore), property taxes were always the responsibility of local government. Consequently, we don’t have any tax information to give to these callers. For towns in our district (Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford and Wilmington), we do have the numbers of the tax collector’s office in each town hall. For towns outside our district, we have only been able to suggest the callers try information for the correct telephone number. Today, we have added to our website an alphabetical listing of all Massachusetts cities and towns with a corresponding telephone number for local property tax information. So now, we’ll be able to suggest callers in search of out of district property tax information click on the “property tax info” link on our website.

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