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A Staten Island judge on Tuesday threw out New York City\u2019s rollout of its new pied-\u00e0-terre tax. He ordered Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration to cancel the notices it sent to property owners and restart the process of deciding who owes the surcharge.<\/p>\n

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State Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi ruled that before deciding a property is a second home subject to the tax, the city must review all the information available to it and produce the records backing its claim. He did not rule on whether the tax itself is legal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pied-\u00e0-terre surcharge is about a basic principle of fairness: if you can afford a luxury second home in New York City, you can afford to pay your fair share for the schools, streets and parks that make this city work,\u201d Matt Rauschenbach, a spokesperson for the mayor, told Fortune <\/em>in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s decision is wrong, and we will invoke a stay of the injunction.\u00a0With a stay, we\u00a0will\u00a0continue implementing the surcharge fairly, efficiently and in full compliance with the law, as we have since day one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York is a city for the many\u2014not a tax haven for the wealthy few,\u201d he continued. \u201cOur Administration is fighting every day to deliver for working New Yorkers. The ultra-wealthy are fighting in court to avoid paying their fair share. They have filed lawsuit after lawsuit to protect their privilege, and we will not back down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile this lawsuit about the administration of the tax is a matter for the city and the courts to work through, the Governor continues to believe that people who can afford a multimillion-dollar second home in New York City can afford to pay their fair share,\u201d Jen Goodman, Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s Director of Rapid Response, told Fortune <\/em>in a statement. <\/p>\n

The city had been counting on at least $500 million a year from the surcharge, one of Mamdani\u2019s signature tax-the-rich promises. It can appeal.<\/p>\n

The city is expected to invoke an automatic stay of the ruling by filing an appeal Tuesday evening, according to a source with knowledge of the city\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

The tax took effect July 1. It applies to one-, two- and three-family homes worth more than $5 million, and to condos or co-ops worth more than $1 million, when they aren\u2019t the owner\u2019s primary residence.<\/p>\n

In July, about 17,000 owners got notices flagging them as possibly owing the tax. The city admitted it did not check owners\u2019 income tax filings before mailing the warnings. Once it did, thousands of the flagged properties turned out to be primary residences.<\/p>\n

Randy Mastro, who was first deputy mayor under Eric Adams, brought the lawsuit on behalf of three homeowners. It doesn\u2019t challenge the tax itself, only how the city\u2019s Department of Finance carried it out.<\/p>\n

Mastro\u2019s suit makes three claims: one, state law required the department to make an individual determination for each property before mailing a notice, and it skipped that step. Second, the city made homeowners prove they didn\u2019t owe the tax instead of doing that work itself. Third, nothing in the law allowed the city to publish an online database of more than 900,000 properties with owners\u2019 names and addresses.<\/p>\n

Mastro said in August that he got one of the notices himself, despite living in Manhattan for decades. \u201cI got one, and everyone knows I\u2019m a New Yorker,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He has sued the Mamdani administration repeatedly since leaving City Hall. \u201cThere are few things more certain in New York City than death, taxes and Randy Mastro filing a lawsuit against this administration,\u201d Mamdani said in August.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mastro said in a statement that the court \u201crecognized we were right all along.\u201d He said the city must now decide owner by owner who owes the surcharge before demanding payment.<\/p>\n

Fortune<\/em> called former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross minutes after the ruling. He isn\u2019t part of the Staten Island case, but he is bringing his own challenge to the tax. On Monday, Ross, his wife Hilary Geary Ross and casino developer Steve Wynn sued the state over the tax as well. While Mastro\u2019s case targets the rollout, their suit targets the tax itself. It argues the tax is unconstitutional because it falls only on people who don\u2019t live in New York City.<\/p>\n

Ross said the ruling didn\u2019t surprise him. \u201cI had told you I was very confident that we were on the right side of the law,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m grateful that he did it so quickly, because a lot of people have been on pins and needles about this whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow undoubtedly there will be an appeal filed, so it\u2019s not necessarily 100% over,\u201d he said, \u201cbut we\u2019re certainly off to a good start.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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