The town last week received a notice that the owners of a Michigan Road home are suing the town over a recent tax assessment.
The owners of 266 Michigan Road—a limited liability company called ‘266 Michigan Partners LLC’—say the town’s appraisal of the property at $11,576,200 (for an assessed value of $8,104,340) was “grossly excessive, disproportionate and unlawful.”
The owners first appealed the assessment to the New Canaan Board of Assessment Appeals, but that elected body made no change, according to an appeal filed in state Superior Court filed by attorney Adam Blank of Stamford-based Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky LLP.
The homeowner “is aggrieved by the doings” of the assessor and Board, according to the appeal, received April 30 by the Town Clerk’s office.
According to tax records, the 6.36-acre property was purchased for $8,586,000 last August. It includes a 2004-built, 16,216-square-foot, six-bedroom house and separate 1,924-square-foot “cottage,” the records say.
The appeal seeks to establish the “true and actual” value of the home for its assessment, reimburse the homeowners “for any overpayment of taxes together with interest and costs” and “grant such other and further relief as to which the Applicant may be awarded in law or equity.”