MONT. CTY. BD. OF REALTORS v. MONT. CTY.

[No. 85, September Term, 1979.]

287 Md. 101 (1980)

411 A.2d 97

MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS, INC. ET AL. v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for reconsideration filed March 12, 1980.

Denied March 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Griffin, with whom were B. George Ballman, Patrick Casey Duncan and Staley, Prescott & Ballman, P.A. on the brief, for appellants.

Charles S. Rand, Assistant County Attorney, with whom were Paul A. McGuckian, County Attorney, and Robert G. Tobin, Jr., Deputy County Attorney, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, ORTH, COLE and DAVIDSON, JJ.


SMITH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Apparently piqued at what it regarded as inadequate real property assessments, Montgomery County enacted a tax statute intended, as put in its brief, to be applicable to a seller who "is revealed to have derived real income from his property in that he enjoyed the use of the property at a lesser tax burden than the sale reveals he should have borne" and to thus impose "an excise on that income, taken, not retroactively...

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