A Half-Million Dollar Typo

A tax board that dropped two commas and a zero from a municipal assessment has lost a court battle for a review of the error. The typo turned a routine tax assessment for $7,790,000 into $779000 – a clerical blunder that cost more than half a million dollars in tax: “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

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