The assessor was accused in a state report in 2011.
EDGEWATER -- The borough on Monday rehired a tax assessor accused in 2011 of giving a developer favorable treatment, The Record reported.
Arthur Carlson reduced tax assessments in 2008 and 2009 for unsold condominium units at City Place by three times as much as individual homeowners in the same complex. This saved the developer, Edgewater Promenade 123, about $475,521.12 in taxes, according to a 2011 report by the state comptroller.
"Mr. Carlson granted tax assessment reductions to the disproportionate financial benefit of a private corporation and to the detriment of other local taxpayers," the report said.
Carlson had resigned before the report was released and noted that he never faced disciplinary action for the allegations.
He called the conclusions of the report "a misreading of the law of what assessors do." Carlson will work part-time, earning $29,000 a year on a four-year contract.
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