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NH-based Specialty Hospitals owes DC back taxes

August 26, 2008
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WASHINGTON—A New Hampshire-based company that was given a $30 million D.C. government subsidy to buy Greater Southeast Community Hospital has the largest delinquent real estate tax bill in Washington.

According to tax office records, Specialty Hospitals of America owes the city more than $1 million in taxes for this year and last year for its Hadley hospital in southeast Washington. Under its former owners, Hadley Memorial Hospital was exempt from real estate taxes.

An attorney for Specialty says the company didn't learn about its tax debt until March -- 15 months after the city eliminated a tax exemption for the property. Attorney ElChino Martin says the company has the money to pay the tax bill if the city doesn't restore the tax exemption by September.

The D.C. tax office is threatening to auction the lien on Specialty Hospital of Washington-Hadley if the owner doesn't pay its taxes by mid-September.

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