There’s no business like show business, and there’s no city like New York City when it comes to getting sued. The ongoing saga of New York’s pied-à-terre tax continued this week, when attorney Randy Mastro, the former first deputy mayor under Eric Adams, filed a lawsuit last week challenging the city’s rollout of the tax.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax was temporarily blocked by a state judge on Monday after homeowners sued the city last week. The Staten Island judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the city from proceeding with enforcing the tax, which is intended to be levied on non-primary homes worth at least $5
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a new filing. That means that the world’s fourth-richest man, whose net worth hovers around $267 billion, has now spent more than $100 million to avoid an estimated $13.3 billion tax
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Three New York City homeowners are suing the Mamdani administration over the rollout of the pied-á-terre tax on multi-million dollar second homes. Per a Department of Finance requirement, the Mamdani administration sent letters to all addresses that could potentially be a pied-á-terre based on property value and internal records in late July. Residents have until
In the last episode of VarietyOn the “Strictly Business” podcast, Colleen Bell, head of the California State Film Commission, discusses her triumphs in her role as the Golden State’s film chief and the hurdles that remain in restoring a high volume of film and television lensing activity to Hollywood’s backyard. Bell says the last few