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Judge lifts freeze on V.I. property taxes
ST. THOMAS – The lengthy legal battle over the territory’s property tax system ended this week when District Judge Curtis Gomez lifted the injunction freezing V.I. tax values and rates at the 1998 level.
He made the decision after a settlement agreement was signed Jan. 7 by the government and the group of commercial property owners who sued the territory more than a decade ago.
“This litigation had a long, and to some, a tortured history,” Gomez wrote in his opinion filed late Thursday night.
