New York City’s pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes has hit a roadblock over the publication of a list of hundreds of thousands of residences in the city.
A Staten Island judge ruled Tuesday that the previously published list of New York City residences should be removed. Instead, the Department of Finance, or DOF, may replace that lengthy list of residences with a roll showing properties actually subject to the tax. Further, mailed tax notices to homeowners who were potentially facing the tax are to be canceled and replaced with notifications to the properties actually affected.
“No crime is involved here, but homeowners are being substantially harmed and penalized needlessly...
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