UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (7News) — The 7News I-Team has obtained the final bill for unpaid property taxes on property that U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks once owned in her district. According to the D.C. Department of Taxation and Revenue, Allbrooks owes $47,580.56.
On September 22, the D.C. Real Estate Tax Office learned of the potential discrepancy based on media reports.
Ms Allbrooks said she had never lived on the property, although she was deeded her grandparents’ former home in 2003.
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“The Department of Taxation and Revenue has no way of knowing whether a property owner actually lives at the property. By law, if a property owner loses their address, they have 30 days from the change of status to report to OTR. You have to notify ‘real estate,”’ said Brianna Jordan of the D.C. Department of Taxation and Revenue, part of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Allbrooks’ estate received two tax deductions: the Homestead Exemption and the Elderly and Disabled Exemption.
“This person was my grandmother, who I loved dearly, and she needed to leave home. She moved in with my parents. I took over the house and paid the mortgage until I sold the house in 2018. “I know she received the senior citizen tax credit years ago,” Allbrooks said last month. “The bill wasn’t sent to me, it was actually sent to my grandmother. I was just paying through my mortgage company, but the DC bill was never sent to me. I didn’t send the bill because it was in someone else’s name.” I don’t know because it wasn’t sent to me. ”
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According to the district, property owners are required to notify the Department of Taxation and Revenue if their property becomes ineligible for tax credits. The D.C. Department of Taxation said it sends out property tax bills twice a year. The bills on Allsbrooks’ home remained in her grandparents’ names until they sold it in 2018, even though they were required to notify the school district within 30 days if they no longer qualified for the exemption. This means that 26 property tax bills were mailed to the Washington, D.C., property over 13 years, but she claims she never saw the bills.
7News reached out to the Allsbrooks campaign and received the following text from Connor Lounsberry, the Allsbrooks campaign’s senior adviser for the Senate.
“As soon as Angela found out about these tax credits, she took immediate action. She now has a bill from DC and is working to pay it off in full. But that doesn’t mean that Larry Hogan and “You Can’t Stop His Republican Billionaires from Activating Their False Attacks.” ”
After Seven News spoke with her campaign last week, her campaign released this statement, saying that Ms. Alsobrooks’ property tax records show that at the time she owed $18,000 in unpaid taxes, not including penalties or interest. He pointed out that he had been paying.
“Angela Alsobrooks never applied for these exemptions. When she became aware of them, she immediately tried to correct them. She asked the school district to calculate the taxes owed and the school district determined that the tax difference was $18,000 over 15 years.It has not yet been determined whether the district will impose additional fees and penalties totaling $41,000, Lounsbury said.
