IN THE MATTER OF THE VALUATION OF MCI WORLDCOM NETWORK SERVICES, INC.


454 Mass. 635 (2009)

IN THE MATTER OF THE VALUATION OF MCI WORLDCOM NETWORK SERVICES, INC. (and sixteen companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 10, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Hazel for the taxpayers.

Richard G. Chmielinski, Assistant City Solicitor, for Board of Assessors of Newton.

Anthony M. Ambriano for Board of Assessors of Boston.

Daniel A. Shapiro, Assistant Attorney General (Daniel J. Hammond, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for Commissioner of Revenue.

Rosemary Crowley & David J. Martel, for Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


CORDY, J.

This case presents challenges to the Commissioner of Revenue's central valuations, made pursuant to G. L. c. 59, § 39 (§ 39), of the "machinery, poles, wires and underground conduits, wires and pipes" (§ 39 property) of the taxpayer telephone companies for fiscal year (FY) 2004, FY 2005, and FY 2006. In deciding those challenges, we must resolve several issues including (1) whether the Appellate Tax Board (board) correctly upheld the commissioner...

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