Roll Call reports:
Newly anointed House Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin (D-Mich.) repaid a Maryland property-tax credit Friday that he should not have received, his office confirmed.
Levin, who owns a home in Chevy Chase, Md., received a $690 credit on his most recent property tax bill, the result of Montgomery County program that provided one-time credits to residential property owners in the 2009-10 tax year.
Levin . . . received the tax credit although it was intended for only “owner-occupied” properties, and he does not live in the home. The credit reduced his tax bill to just under $9,500. . .
Levin repaid the credit Friday, [Levin’s chief of staff] said, after being contacted by Roll Call.
(Emphasis mine.)
The House’s chief tax-writer
UPDATE (6/22/2011): Evidently a draft somehow got published in place of the full post. Unfortunately, I no longer remember where I was going with this, so I’ll leave it as is.
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