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The owners of AccuPay, a Bel Air payroll services firm accused of failing to pay state and federal income tax withholdings for as many as 600 clients last year, is set to sell their Bel Air home and its contents in a real estate auction next month.

Upper Chesapeake Hospital will be able to pay Harford County an annual $4,300 in lieu of taxes so it can build a major power generator after the Harford County Council approved the deal Tuesday night.

Upper Chesapeake Medical Center hopes to save money on a high-power, $8 million electric generator by leasing it for the first eight years, a project it wants the county to support by letting the hospital give a payment in lieu of taxes for 20 years..

'If a developer came to you, you'd give out the tax breaks,' Clarke says