New York homeowners fighting the controversial pied-à-terre tax were handed an early win Monday, when a judge temporarily blocked Mayor Zohran Mamdani from implementing the new surcharge.
Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi put the tax on ice after peeved property owners sued the city, claiming it botched the rollout and unfairly burdened them.
Ozzi issued a temporary restraining order that nullifies any existing deadlines for the tax. The judge blocked City Hall and the city Department of Finance from keeping online a published tax roll of more than 950,000 Big Apple homeowners “related” to the new tax, according to the ruling.
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