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Milton officials deliver a big tax bill to Senator Brian Joyce

One of Milton’s selectmen questioned whether the previous assessment of the property owned by Senator Brian Joyce (above) had been too low. Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

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Milton town officials have raised Senator Brian Joyce’s property taxes by 54 percent based largely on a sales brochure describing its interior.

Town assessors this month set the tax value of the Joyces’ home at $1.33 million — almost half a million dollars more than the current value of $867,000. As a result, the Joyces’ property tax bill will jump from $11,711 to $18,073 in 2017.

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