Spano getting tough with real estate scofflaws
Photo credit: Nancy Siesel | Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano speaks about budget issues at Yonkers City Hall. (July 30, 2012)
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano is getting tough with tax cheats, vowing to go after city property owners who owe tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid real estate transfer taxes.
In Yonkers, homeowners are required to pay a transfer tax amounting to 1.5 percent of a property's final sale price, but Spano said 47 property owners are delinquent on $643,667 in outstanding taxes on purchases dating...
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