Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corp. v. MassDevelopment/Saltonstall Building Redevelopment Corp.

Curran, Dennis J., J.

This dispute concerns taxes, the other of life’s great certainties. Plaintiffs Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation and Prince Lobel Tye, LLP claim they overpaid their share of taxes assessed against the office space they leased from the defendant, MassD-evelopment/Saltonstall Building Redevelopment Corporation. While the contracts between the parties include the tenants’ responsibility to cover some taxes as additional rent payments, the plaintiffs argue the defendants unfairly went beyond the plain language of those agreements in demanding more. They…