NYC Property Tax Plan Comes Too Late, Says Group Suing City (3)

An advisory panel’s work on overhauling New York City’s property tax system may be too little, too late, in the view of a group suing the city to make the first changes since 1996.

“Thinking through these issues is a good thing, but political inaction is why we went to court to force reform in the first place,” said Martha Stark, policy director of Tax Equity Now New York (TENNY), a coalition of real estate interests and community advocates. “Our lawsuit remains the best hope for New Yorkers being unfairly burdened by a broken, discriminatory, and unlawful property tax system.” ...