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· 2/20/1991

Philbin v. Town of St. George

Citations

  • 588 A.2d 1060
  • 156 Vt. 640
  • 1991 Vt. LEXIS 38

How courts have described this case

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  • Board has discretion to use other evidence to determine equalization ratio when it lacks sufficient comparables
  • Court will not dictate how equalization should be done, and lack of uniformity in assessments may be established by any relevant evidence
  • although factfinder is normally limited to comparing properties in the same class as that of taxpayer’s property, “where the Board concludes that it lacks evidence of a statistically representative sample,” it may use evidence of other classes

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Judges: Allen, C.J., and Dooley, Morse and Johnson

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