Machias Assessor Responds to Justin King, Explains How Taxes Are Derived
By Paul Sylvain
By their nature, some jobs are more “taxing” than others. Just ask J. Douglas Guy III, whose job as Machias assessor is to calculate the town’s property taxes for each year.
Nobody enjoys seeing their taxes go up, but as Guy noted in an interview on Oct. 19, “There is never a simple answer to ‘why my taxes went up’.”