New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg said for the first time that “maybe we will” send out that $400 property tax rebate he has been holding hostage for more than a month.
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Although not specific, the mayor seemed to link mailing the rebate – worth $256 million to more than 600,000 homeowners – to striking a deal with the City Council on a disputed budget modification plan.
Discussing the issue on his weekly WOR radio show, the mayor urged, “Do it right now, so we’d get the second six months of this fiscal year …. That’s [worth] roughly $600 million in revenue.”
In the same breath, he added, “And I’ve said, you know, nobody wants to send out the property tax rebate more than me – and maybe we will.”
The drop-dead deadline for resolving the standoff on a plan to bridge a $4 billion budget gap caused by the Wall Street implosion is Thursday.
That’s the day a judge is expected to rule on a suit by several Council members to force payment of the rebates.
Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Philip Minardo has urged both sides to resolve their differences by then – or “the court will decide.”
Thursday is also the date of the Council’s last scheduled session of the year, timed to give the legislators a long holiday break.
The mayor’s plan includes scrapping the rebate and rescinding the 7% property tax rate relief granted two years ago when times were flush.
It was scheduled to end next July 1, but the mayor wants to move it up to Jan. 1.
Neither side would say a deal is close, but a Council aide familiar with the talks confided, “The process has started for an agreement next week … the wheels are moving.”
He thinks the 400 dollars will make us happy. Stop raising taxes wereever you can
The $400 rebate is part of the approx. $1200 tax increase we all pay because of Bloomberg.
Let him just lower the property tax back to the same level it was before he raised it.
The man {Bloomie} cant help it, hejust loves taxes.
If Felder votes for the increases let’s all make sure he gets defeated in the next election!!
Please.
So what if they send out the $400 (it is our money he is refunding) – he is going to raise property tax to compensate for it.
when mayor hugo bloomberg chavez sez nobody wants to send out the rebate checks more then me. it reminds me like the old mlamed used to hitting the kids and saying it hurts for me more then you…..
MR BLOOMBERG if you want to send it out just send it !!!
by the way on your tax bill you got an september it sez ” you will recive your check in october “…
i am still waiting
Instead of voting against Felder. Let’s just get everybody to vote against Bloomberg who is the source of all NYC problems.
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Even if he has a strong campaign next year. Just make sure to get even one more vote against Bloomeberg. Try to geteverybody you know to vote agaist him.
Good, now we can begin to pay off a fraction of the parking tickets and garbage violations we get from attackers known as “meter maids” and “sanitation inspectors.”
mayor bloomberg you are the grinch that stole my christmas and so many others you promised us that money and you lied about the delay you have no idea how much people like myself depended on that money just to buy decent groceries after everything going up so much this year except our salaries many people have dipped into their modest savings i had walked to work many days because of high gas prices now i was counting on the money for a decent christmas dinner and a present for my firstborn grandson i do not think that is too much to ask the middle class people are the ones getting hit BECAUSE WE DO NOT GET HELP but tell me mr mayor with the price of EVERYTHING that has gone up how do you expect us to buy food you would be surprised at how loittle i have left at the end of the month after busting my butt and paying for medication because i cannot afford to be on disability and then i am told that i make too much money under 30 thousand and only have 100 to 150 left for food that i cannot get foodstamps what a joke!