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Tax Breaks Sought Amid Boom

Submitted by Jim Barnard, Jul 23, 2007 11:37

One way that they could lower the tax is by fixing the so called Mansion Tax. The average apartment is over $1.25 million so they should not be charging 1% Mansion Tax on the average apartments. See below website for a petition to fix it.


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