NYC Must Scrap 17,000 Pied-à-Terre Tax Notices in Court-Ordered Do-Over

New York City must scrap roughly 17,000 notices sent to homeowners under its new pied-à-terre tax after a judge ruled officials improperly made New Yorkers prove they didn’t owe the surcharge before determining who actually did.“All previously Mailed Notices are to be cancelled,” Richmond County Supreme Court Justice Wayne M. Ozzi ordered on Tuesday. He ruled that the notices were “arbitrary and capricious, affected by errors of law, and in violation of the recipients’ due process rights.”The ruling does not strike down the new surcharge on high-value homes that are not primary residences. But it forces the city to redo the process it used to determine who should pay it.Randy Mastro, an attorney representing the homeowners who challenged the rollout, called the decision a required “do-over.”“It confirms what we’ve been saying all along, which is that the Mamdani administration massively screwed up the rollout of this pied-à-terre tax,” Mastro said following the ruling. “Now, the city will have to do it over and do it right.”The mayor's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday evening.The 17,000 ‘nastygrams’ have to goBeginning in July, the Department o...