After hearing over 10 hours of testimony spread over two days, the N.H. Board of Tax and Land Appeals must now decide whether the Berlin Board of Assessors acted improperly when it granted abatements to each other.
The case focuses on a statistical update of the city’s property valuations performed in September 2018 by KRT Appraisals.
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