Owners of priciest Fairfield home owe the biggest unpaid tax bill

Bradley and Karin Jack not only own the most expensive residential property in Fairfield -- a 20-acre estate on Sasco Point with a sweeping view of Long Island Sound -- they also top the list of delinquent taxpayers with an unpaid bill topping $270,000.

According to a list of the town's top 25 delinquent taxpayers, provided by the Tax Collector's office to the Board of Finance, the Jacks owe $271,923 on the 1143 Sasco Hill Road waterfront estate dating to 2010.

The now-divorced couple bought the property in 2001 for $24.4 million. Appraised at $34.5 million -- and with an assessed value of $24.5 million for property tax purposes -- the property boasts five buildings, an in-ground pool, tennis courts and a stable.

Bradley Jack now lives in Westport, and though they were divorced several years ago, the names of Bradley and Karin Jack are listed on tax documents.

Bradley Jack, a former manager director at Lehman Brother Holdings, was arrested in August in Fairfield and charged with illegally obtaining OxyContin and Ritalin pills at the CVS pharmacy on Black Rock Turnpike. He later was granted entry to a special probation program for first-time, nonviolent offenders.

Requests for comment on the tax issue from Jack's lawyers, William Pelletreau and Robert Golger, were not returned.

The next highest delinquents on the 2011 list are Jonathan James Bailey, of 418 Harbor Road in Southport, with unpaid taxes of $141,631 dating back to 2008; and the Jacks' neighbors at 1078 Sasco Hill Road, Alexius and Nancy Conroy, who have $126,457 outstanding on their tax bill dating to 2010.

Alexius Conroy is the owner of the Conroy Development Co.

The list also includes a number of developers who owe taxes on multiple properties.

According to Tax Collector Stanley Gorzelany, delinquent taxes on the town's books now total $7.1 million, a jump from June 30, when that number was $3.6 million.

"A large percentage of those delinquent for the current year pay the taxes due after they receive our `Notice of Intent to Lien' in May," Gorzelany said. "There is generally a significant reduction in delinquent taxes at that time."

He said the town has the option of conducting either a lien assignment, as it has in the past, or a tax sale.

"Either one would result in a reduction of outstanding taxes," he said.

Despite the bad economy, the town's overall tax-collection rate remains high, Gorzelany said, noting for the past four years it has been at 99.9 or 98.9 percent.

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