Moultonboro State Rep Betsey Patten

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Originally Posted by gtxrider

...The practice of assessing the nonlocals higher than the locals seems like socialism to me...

Yes, it would seem like socialism. As a matter of fact it would seem like this practice would be illegal, now and back then when FLL claimed in an earlier post:

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

...If an individual town's tax collector wanted to assess two very IDENTICAL properties, for example, property A at $100,000, and property B at $200,000, based on the reason that property A was owned by a local family who lived and worked locally, while property B was a second home owned by someone who lived and worked in the Boston area, the tax collector could do this...

Sorry folks, it has never been legal during New Hampshire's implementation of a property tax to assign different tax rates to residents & non residents. And, as with FLL's usual flair for inaccuracy, the assessed value of a property is set by the assessor, not the collector. The value of your property remains simply that, the fair market value of your land and buildings regardless of any particular residency, job status or political persuasion of the owner of such property.

Once again fatlazyless has played very loose with the facts and circumstances of a particular polarizing issue. Perhaps he does this intentionally to stir debate and discuss. However, in this particular case he has clearly misrepresented the process and failed to provide a reference source for any of us to verify the outrageous claim he makes against the Town of Ashland's tax collector.

That is an unfortunate disservice to the reader.