Members of Boston’s Assessing Department, tasked with setting each year’s property tax bills, have recently received death threats over their work, Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday.
The city’s property taxes have been under scrutiny in recent years as increasing tax bills have strained homeowners. Wu has petitioned the state Legislature multiple times, unsuccessfully, to allow Boston to shift some of that burden onto commercial property owners.
The department is also currently locked in a legal battle with a group of commercial property owners who claim they were retaliated against for appealing their tax assessments…