Township Balks at Phone Company's Exemption Claim
CenturyLink's assessment goes to zero, but for how long?
After local landline telephone company Century Link challenged its assessment under a 1997 law exempting local exchange telephone companies that serve less than 51 percent of a municipality's population, the township is taking steps to push back. At Tuesday's Township Committee meeting, Mayor Frank DelCore said that "last fall, Century Link provided a notice to Hillsborough that they were no longer providing coverage to at least 51 percent of the township and therefore were no longer required by statue to file the return and pay property taxes in 2013." But township officials challenged that determination, filing an appeal to the County Board of Taxation last week on the grounds sufficient evidence had not been provided to verify Century…
Patricia P. Smith
9:17 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I agree with Edward Campbell. While I appreciate that wealthier residents help to protect larger tracts of land, they are rarely farming in the true sense of the word and the required amount of sales to satisfy the statute is ludicrous compared to what the true farmers of Hillsborough expend yearly to farm their land. Use of farm land assessment credits needs to be allowed only by FARMERS more ›