{"id":190983,"date":"2010-01-17T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/ex-hammond-mayor-owes-nearly-120k-on-taxes"},"modified":"2010-01-17T12:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T17:45:53","slug":"ex-hammond-mayor-owes-nearly-120k-on-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/190983","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Hammond mayor owes nearly $120K on taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CROWN POINT, Ind. &#8212; A former northwest Indiana mayor with one of the most expensive homes in Crown Point also owes a huge tax debt.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Sr. is behind by nearly $120,000. His $1.6 million home in one of Crown Point&#8217;s most affluent neighborhoods narrowly escaped the Lake County treasurer&#8217;s tax sale in July.<\/p>\n<p>McDermott says he is appealing the 2006 assessment of his house. He says his property tax bills are too high because the home was improperly assessed.<\/p>\n<p>McDermott has been behind on his bill almost since he bought the home in 2002 for $1.3 million. He has paid smaller and smaller property tax amounts each year since. He has paid less than $10,000 in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>His son, Thomas McDermott Jr., is now mayor of Hammond.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Ex-Hammond mayor owes nearly $120K on taxes\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagotribune.com\/~r\/ChicagoBreakingNews\/~3\/W3FF9hyiPIU\/ex-hammond-mayor-owes-nearly-120k-on-taxes.html\"  rel='nofollow'>Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KL9lbYVsEb6ZIADP9sB11huTvbw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KL9lbYVsEb6ZIADP9sB11huTvbw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KL9lbYVsEb6ZIADP9sB11huTvbw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KL9lbYVsEb6ZIADP9sB11huTvbw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Nzq_tSy5dek:4LkSW1BpVfE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Nzq_tSy5dek:4LkSW1BpVfE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Nzq_tSy5dek:4LkSW1BpVfE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=Nzq_tSy5dek:4LkSW1BpVfE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/Nzq_tSy5dek\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CROWN POINT, Ind. &#8212; A former northwest Indiana mayor with one of the most expensive homes in Crown Point also owes a huge tax debt. Former Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Sr. is behind by nearly $120,000. His $1.6 million home in one of Crown Point&#8217;s most affluent neighborhoods narrowly escaped the Lake County treasurer&#8217;s tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}