The District of Columbia has issued a bill to U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks — it totals $47,580 — to account for her receiving property tax credits she was not qualified for.

The bill, which is due by Oct. 31, is for a combination of back taxes and interest, according to a copy obtained by The Baltimore Sun following a public records request to the Washington, D.C., Office of Tax and Revenue.

Alsobrooks, a Democrat running against Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan for an open Senate seat, has said she inadvertently claimed property tax credits she did not qualify for on a home she was renting out in Washington that had belonged to her grandmother.

The homestead tax credit is supposed to apply only to a homeowner’s primary residence. Alsobrooks was also receiving a senior citizen tax credit that had applied to her grandmother and shouldn’t have continued when she assumed ownership of the northeast Washington home after her grandmother, who is now deceased, left about 20 years ago. Alsobrooks later sold the home.

“As soon as Angela was made aware of these tax credits, she took immediate action,” said a statement Monday from Connor Lounsbury, an Alsobrooks senior adviser. “She has now received the bill from D.C. and is working to pay it back in full. But that won’t stop Larry Hogan and his Republican billionaires from continuing their false attacks.”

Hogan’s campaign said in a statement last month that voters should not trust a candidate “who dodges their taxes.”

Alsobrooks, the second-term Prince George’s County executive, said she didn’t see the bills because they were paid as part of her mortgage, and the actual paper bills were sent to the Washington house in her grandmother’s name rather than to her home in Prince George’s County.

The “audit tax bill” was dated Sept. 30 and sent to Alsobrooks’ attorneys. It subtracts her actual amount paid from her owed taxes and interest over the approximately 15 years she owned the northeast Washington home.

Following a CNN report on the issue last month, Alsobrooks also said she inadvertently neglected to transfer a homestead credit on a home in Prince George’s County where she used to live and which later became a rental property.

That meant she was incorrectly accepting a tax credit on the former home but losing out on a credit in her new home that would have been even larger because it was assessed at a higher rate.

She has since paid approximately $3,000 to the county to account for the underpayment on her former home, according to her campaign.

Alsobrooks and Hogan are running in a nationally significant race, as the outcome could affect which party gains majority control of the Senate.

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