Hundreds of Scarborough residents are reeling after the first comprehensive property revaluation since 2005 results in big increases.
Maine Revenue Services
Posted inNews, The Penobscot Times
State valuations rise for all local communities
Leading the way was Orono, with a valuation of $470.9 million – about $14 million more than last year, mainly because of large-scale student housing projects that were built.
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Posted inBusiness
Hey, Maine: Tuesday = Tax Day
LEWISTON — Mannie Patel has had a good tax season. Good for him, maybe bad for you. The owner of three Liberty Tax Service franchises in Lewiston-Auburn — the ones with dancing Statues of Liberty out front — said this year, he ran into more customers tripped up by Affordable Care Act penalties on their […]
Posted inFranklin
Jay man accused of terrorizing representatives of Maine Revenue Services
JAY — A local man is accused of threatening to harm representatives of Maine Revenue Services and others, Maine Capitol police Chief Russell Gauvin said Tuesday. Jay police arrested Joseph W. Narhuminti, 75, of Jay on Monday on a warrant on a misdemeanor charge of terrorizing, Gauvin said. The threats were made by email and […]
Posted inLocal & State
In honor of Tax Day, a glimpse into the Life of a Maine Tax Return
AUGUSTA — In one quiet room Tuesday, a dozen workers slid paper income tax returns out of their envelopes, smoothed, then stacked them to be whisked off to a scanning room. They’ll do it 60,000 times this week. It’s a high-tech process involving bar codes and electronics that count each time a worker grabs a […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Audits cite serious problems in the state’s day-to-day operations
That’s because the state has no well-documented disaster recovery plan and doesn’t run periodic disaster tests. Thousands of Mainers may be taking advantage of the unemployment system run by the Maine Department of Labor, forcing the state to spend millions of dollars more than it should. Or not. No one really knows. One-third of the […]