Reply to post: Re: government is responsible for costs and penalties

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Charles 9

Re: government is responsible for costs and penalties

No, it just doesn't make sense to pull off. Value is relative, and smaller governments have a hard enough time assessing real estate taxes without getting disputes and court cases. Plus they can employ degrees of separation (such as trust funds) to put some distance between their assets and the tax man. As a last resort, they can always target the tax agencies themselves.

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