The fight between Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and State Sen. Nick Collins over property taxes is boiling over as the city’s top leader has struggled to shift the burden from homeowners to commercial property owners.
At a press conference Thursday, Wu said her Beacon Hill colleague, Collins, doesn’t “understand the basic facts of what his constituents are going through,” with residential property taxes expected to rise 13% next month — or $780 a year — on the average single family home. Commercial real estate taxpayers in Boston, meanwhile, are likely to see their bills decrease by 4.4% — for an average $210,000 in yearly savings.
On Friday afternoon, a city spokesperson announced the state Department of Revenue had finished certifying the valuations for commercial and residential real estate in the city to determine how to tax individual properties. The projections released to reporters on Tuesday lined up with the state’s numbers. Last year, critics pointed to considerable discrepancies between the two…