Military training facility to pay Camden County in back taxes
Xe Services LLC, a military contractor, has agreed with Camden County, New Jersey officials to pay $1.5M in back property taxes for its military training facility there.
An Associated Press article reprinted in PilotOnlinec.com, “Xe, Camden County settle dispute about back taxes,” indicateds that the contractor and its subsidiaries will pay half of what the county originally demanded. Xe Services is Camden County’s largest taxable property owner, according to the DailyAdvance.com in “Camden trying to avoid being stiffed $2.9M by Xe,” an earlier article on the topic that reported that Xe had failed to file property taxes on military hardware and other equipment like helicopters, airplanes, machinery and supplies as far back as 2005.
Xe is better known as the former Blackwater USA, which was hired as a private security firm in Afghanistan and Iraq several years ago. It came under intense scrutiny for its questionable use of force and faced allegations of abuse in killing Iraqi civilians.
Xe Services has maintained its corporate headquarters in Camden County for the past 10 years, although it is incorporated in North Carolina. Some officials had speculated that Camden authorities had looked the other way for several years after Xe representatives said it was considering moving its aviation division to Camden County and building a hotel and industrial park there.
Xe had maintained it was being overtaxed for equipment that was never in Camden County and demonstrated that some aircraft and ships thought to be in the county were actually based in Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa during these years.
Xe representatives said that the bill will be paid before the end of the year.
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