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Holden votes against late tax penalties
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
Queens Councilman Robert Holden made a point
of voting against two City Council resolutions
to raise the interest rate for delinquent
payment of property taxes on Wednesday, May 29.
As part of a vote that happens every year as
part of the budgeting process, the resolutions
established a 7 percent interest rate on the
nonpayment of taxes for properties of less than
$250,000 and an 18 percent interest rate on
properties of $250,000 or more. They passed the
City Council by over a 20-vote margin.
“We should be supporting property owners,
not making it more challenging to keep their
homes. These resolutions would further penalize
property owners who are already burdened with
challenges posed in satisfying payment on their
property taxes,” Holden wrote in a tweet after the
meeting.
In general, the constituents in District 30
encounter higher property tax rates because it’s a
mostly middle-class area with one- to three-family
homes. The median home value in Ridgewood is
$1,250,000 and $732,500 in Glendale according
to the Multiple Listing Service. It’s rare to find a
house under $250,000.
Holden argued that these interest rates will put
people in danger of losing their homes. In the case
that someone is facing financial hardship and
can’t make property payments, these interests
rates could put them deeper in debt.
Councilman Robert Holden Photo courtesy of John McCarten/NYC Council
The city’s Department of Finance does offer a
Property Tax and Interest Deferral plan to help
homeowners going through financial hardship.
The plan reduces the amount of property tax they
need to pay while the hardship persists.
According to the legislation proposed by Jackson
Heights Councilman Daniel Dromm, its goal is “to
encourage the prompt payment of taxes on real
estate by all large taxpayers.”
Holden was joined by other fiscally conservative
Democrats like Mark Gjonaj and Reuben Diaz Sr.
and Republicans like Joe Borelli and Eric Ulrich.
“We would be increasing their burden so they
could lose their home. This is no good,” said Diaz
Sr. in explaining his vote.
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