More New Yorkers join legal fight to halt pied-à-terre tax after Mamdani’s bungled rollout
More New Yorkers are joining the legal battle against the state’s new pied-à-terre tax — with one claiming the city mailed his notice letter to a neighbor who lives nearly 30 stories below him, court documents show. Four new plaintiffs have jumped onto the lawsuit filed by attorney Randy Mastro that seeks to pause the surcharge on luxury second homes in the Big Apple due to the Mamdani administration’s botched rollout of the new tax.
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More New Yorkers are joining the legal battle against the state’s new pied-à-terre tax — with one claiming the city mailed his notice letter to a neighbor who lives nearly 30 stories below him, court documents show. Four new plaintiffs have jumped onto the lawsuit filed by attorney Randy Mastro that seeks to pause the surcharge on luxury second homes in the Big Apple due to the Mamdani administration’s botched rollout of the new tax. Among them is Kenneth Fishel, a real estate executive, who claims he was targeted with a letter from the city Department of Finance alerting him that he could be subject to the levy — despite paying taxes for years out of his Park Avenue co-op on the Upper East Side, the Tuesday filing shows. But the DOF allegedly mistakenly labeled the letter, mailing it to one of Fishel’s neighbors who lives nearly 30 floors below him.
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- More New Yorkers are joining the legal battle against the state’s new pied-à-terre tax — with one claiming the city mailed his notice letter to a neighbor who lives nearly 30 stories below him, court documents show. Four new plaintiffs have jumped onto the lawsuit filed by attorney Randy Mastro that seeks to pause the surcharge on luxury second homes in the Big Apple due to the Mamdani administration’s botched rollout of the new tax.
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More New Yorkers join legal fight to halt pied-à-terre tax after Mamdani’s bungled rollout
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