Repeat Nassau property tax assessment error appears confirmed

                                                                                         

Looks like the talk earlier this week about a repeat assessment error was accurate:

The Nassau Assessment department again erroneously placed a tax-exempt North Hempstead church on the county assessment roll, resulting in a near $500,000 general tax bill for the New Hyde park property bill.

The county made the same error for the school tax bills and assessment promised to fix the mistake.

But according to North Hempstead Tax receiver Charles Berman it wasn't corrected.

Charles Berman

See the above letter.

Last October, the school tax bill was nearly $677,000, Newsday reported.

This month, the tab is hearly $489,000.

Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman's office did not respond to questions from this blog about rumored repeat errors.

He also has not responded to a letter from Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport) asking about the same errors.

Wonder how Presiding Officer Rich Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) will react to the apparent same mistake.The church property is in his legislative district.

An inquiry was made to his spokesperson.

Of course, it should be noted the Berman is an elected Democrat; the only Democrat among Nassau's three town's tax receivers.

That means Berman is less likely to work with Blakeman to quietly correct the bill and more likely to make it public.

That's doesn't mean he's wrong though. Berman has long been involved in assessment.

Here is the inquiry from Abrahams: