State Rep. Rashida Tlaib has paid $4,550 to Wayne County and a local charity to make up for underpaying taxes on a Dearborn rental property since 2008, Paul Egan reports in the Free Press.
The paper wrote in February that Tlaib, D-Detroit, a lawyer, and her husband, Fayez Tlaib, claimed a 100% personal residence exemption for the Detroit home they live in and a rental property they own in Dearborn.
Only the Detroit home was eligible for the exemption.
Tlaib, who is running for the state Senate, said the underpayment was an honest mistake and promised to put things right by paying taxes, interest and penalties to the county as far back as 2010, which is all the county will accept; and by giving to charity what she would have owed for the two earlier years.
