The state has lifted its tax-related seizure of M&M Collision and Auto Repair at 8490 Turin Road, a Department of Taxation and Finance spokesman said today.

As a result of a agreement reached Monday to resolve tax payment matters, the business owner would be "able to open his business again," said spokesman Geoffrey Gloak. He said "the business is no longer under seizure. That’s good news."

M&M President Tom Shantz could not be reached for comment this morning.

The site, one of the larger collision and auto repair shops in the north Rome and Lee areas, was seized by the state at the end of May for non-payment of taxes. State warrants that had been filed totaled about $141,000 for sales tax, $19,000 for withholding tax, and $986 for corporation tax, Gloak said at the time.

"The owner has worked with us" to reach "an arrangement to either pay in full...or set up a payment arrangement" for taxes owed, Gloak said today; he would not elaborate on details. It is "in taxpayers’ and the state’s best interest for taxpayers to remain in business," he said of such agreements, adding that the alternative would have been for the property to end up in auction.