Tax debtors turn over $35 million ; An amnesty offer to pay back taxes and just half the interest nets more than twice what the state expected.

From: Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME) | Date: December 16, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

PAUL CARRIER Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
12-16-2003
Tax debtors turn over $35 million ; An amnesty offer to pay back taxes and just half the interest nets more than twice what the state expected.
Byline: PAUL CARRIER Staff Writer
Edition: Final
Section: Local & State

AUGUSTA --

Thousands of Mainers and Maine companies know a good thing when they see it, and state government is almost $35 million richer as a result. The three-month tax-amnesty program that the state offered from September through November collected $34.7 million from more than 18,000 delinquents who owed the ...

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