the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Northfield NJ, in May, Assemblyman John Armato a Democrat introduced a bill giving wealthy casino owners a property tax break at the expense of Atlantic County’s working families and retirees struggling to pay property taxes. The bill would have flattened the casinos’ payment-in-lieu of taxes (PILOT) at $125 million, while excluding sports betting and online gambling from revenue calculations—a huge boon to their bottom line at taxpayer expense.
