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Read. Follow. Verify.Massachusetts bill allows municipal tax collectors to waive up to half of tax interest, charges, and fees
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read second and ordered to a third readingSponsor: Marcus Vaughn
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What This Bill Would Do
Municipal tax collectors are newly permitted to use their discretion to waive up to 50 percent of total interest, charges, and fees for a given tax period.
Changes the maximum amount of financial penalty relief local tax collectors can grant delinquent property owners.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Municipal tax collectors
They receive discretionary authority to waive up to 50 percent of interest, charges, and fees for taxpayers.
Property taxpayers
They may be granted reductions in accumulated tax interest, charges, and fees at the discretion of the collector.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently on floor. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Passed.
Procedural history
8 actions- Mar 9, 2026HouseRead second and ordered to a third reading
- Mar 9, 2026HouseRules suspended
- Mar 9, 2026HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- Feb 11, 2026HouseCommitteeBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- Oct 28, 2025JointHearing scheduled for 11/07/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
- Jul 14, 2025JointHearing canceled – new hearing TBD
Show 2 earlier actions
- Feb 27, 2025SenateSenate concurred
- Feb 27, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to the committee on Revenue
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance40How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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