FILED ON: 7/30/2018

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4847

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninetieth General Court
(2017-2018)

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An Act relative to raising the income threshold for senior real property tax deferments in the town of Brookline.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding clause forty-first A of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the Town of Brookline may adopt a maximum qualifying gross receipts amount for purposes of said clause forty-first A of not more than the income limit determined by the commissioner of revenue for the purposes of subsection (k) of section 6 of chapter 62 for married persons filing jointly, regardless of the taxpayer's marital status.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.