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Defend America on Sunday, March 07, 2010 12:33:42 PM
Levin Repays Property Tax Credit
By
Jennifer Yachnin
Roll Call Staff
March 5, 2010, 8:49 p.m.
Newly anointed House Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
repaid a Maryland property-tax credit Friday that he should not have
received, his office confirmed.
Levin, who owns a home in Chevy Chase, Md.,
received a $690 credit on his most recent property tax bill, the result
of Montgomery County program that provided one-time credits to
residential property owners in the 2009-10 tax year.
Levin, who purchased the home in 1977,
received the tax credit although it was intended for only
“owner-occupied” properties, and he does not live in the home. The
credit reduced his tax bill to just under $9,500.
“This is not a tax credit that Rep. Levin
applied for and in an abundance of caution he has paid the full amount
to Montgomery County to correct their mistake,” Levin Chief of Staff
Hilarie Chambers wrote in an e-mail Friday.
Chambers said the Michigan lawmaker moved out
of the home in September 2008, following the death of his wife. His
daughter and her family now occupy the home, and he stays at a Silver
Spring condominium owned by his daughter when he is in the Washington,
D.C. area.
Levin repaid the credit Friday, Chambers said, after being contacted by Roll Call.
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