Realtors Aren’t Buying Baker’s Plan To Fund Climate Prep With A Property Sales Tax Hike
Whenever you sell property in Massachusetts, the state makes you pay an excise tax. On a $500,000 home, that comes out to just under $2,300. But now Gov. Charlie Baker has proposed increasing that tax to raise another $137 million each year, for the purpose of strengthening the state’s defenses against climate change. “It’s pretty…