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Torah & Horaah — Fleischman-Bo - Neighbor Paid Part of his Real Estate Tax by Mistake 5784

Выпуск: Torah & Horaah — Fleischman-Bo - Neighbor Paid Part of his Real Estate Tax by Mistake 5784. Темы: health_mind. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. D iN our site: WWW.dinonline.org.il THE TORAH& INTETNATIONAL BEIS HORAA The Institute for Dayanim HORAAH And under the auspices of Beis Horaah in memory of Baruch and Bracha Gross Bo 5784 271  Question in Choshen Mishpot  By Rabbi Yosef Fleischman Neighbor Paid Part of his Real Estate Tax by Mistake Question The municipal authorities in Israel, where we live, charge real estate tax (called arnona) based on their measurements of the size of each property. However, when my neighbor asked them to refund the money that they overcharged him in the past, they refused with the argument that the bylaws of the municipality, which are posted on the municipality's website, state that any complaints of mistakes in one's bill must be brought to their attention within ninety days of receipt of the bill. Since their charge to be halachically valid it must either be was an error, and by their own admission justifiable according to pure Jewish law or it would have been returned had your 1 Questions in all areas of halacha can be submitted to the rabbanim of our Beis Horaah at www.dinonline.org neighbor brought it to their attention within Furthermore, the municipality cannot claim ninety days after receipt of the bill, the that their practice is valid under Torah law municipality is admitting that it had a debt. on the basis of dena demalchusa or minhag- It is arguing that your neighbor's failure custom, since this is merely a practice of a to bring it to their attention immediately municipality and not a law of the land and constitutes mechilo, forgiveness of a debt. However, the Torah rule is that mechilo Having established that the municipality's that was made in error does not constitute refusal to return your neighbor's mechilo since only if one really intends to overpayment constitutes theft on their forgive a debt, is the debt voided. Since people are unaware of the rule that failure to point out an error in a bill within The Mishna (Kesubos 107B) that discusses ninety days constitutes forfeiture of a the issue of a person who paid another person's bill writes that if a husband A debt, one cannot claim that your neighbor traveled to a different land leaving his wife, inten

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Torah & Horaah

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19 января 2024 г.

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Темы: health_mind