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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNY: Lawmakers Support 'Pied--Terre' Tax on Multimillion-Dollar Second Homes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/nyregion/mta-subways-pied-a-terre-tax.htmlAbout time. More and more buildings for the super-rich to have a weekend place, while housing grows more unaffordable.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)Those are the real killers. Those people don't even come and spend money in the cities where they own property.
Mega-Towers with nobody home.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)I make every effort I can to spend money locally when I'm there. I don't think places that actually get used by owners are the real problem.
edhopper
(33,584 posts)are not the same as luxury towers in the middle of the city for use by the super rich a couple times a year. And a big part of the owners are foriegn nationals laundering their money.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)edhopper
(33,584 posts)definitely, Trumps business model was laundering Russian and Chinese money.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Asses these second and third homes as Recreational which carries the highest possible Taxing Mill-rate allowed. Other states will not allow any Taxable write downs associated with non primary Residential Property.