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Do I look dead to you? Snippy 94-year-old Long Islander sees taxes increase 12-fold and mortgage payments rocket after county clerk wrongly declared her deceased
The Nassau County Assessor s office accidently presumed Ann Mazze, 94, dead, which removed her exemptions and tripled her tax bill They thought that I was dead. Do I look dead to you? a sassy Mazze said while stretching out her arms
Mazze s school taxes soared from $327.04 to $4,773.08 as a result of the blunder, and she was also hit by other wrongful increases
Mazze s daughter, Lori Goldman, said she believes the assessor s office might ve made the mistake after she bought the house from her mom in 2019 and its deeds were altered
Woman, 94, loses tax exemptions when she is assumed dead
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An elderly woman on Long Island is frustrated with a county mistake that forced her to pay higher taxes after someone mistook her for dead.
The 94-year-old woman is demanding thousands of dollars in a tax refund from Nassau County after she lost two tax exemptions. I m very upset and very angry at all that s happened, said Ann Mazze, of Levittown.
Mazze said when she realized she lost her veteran tax exemption and her enhanced senior tax exemption, her daughter called the Nassau County Department of Assessment and she said someone in the office told her daughter they assumed Mazze was dead.