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New York City Department of Finance

Wage cases are a growing share of the federal court docket. Disclosure of anonymous shareholders of limited liability companies and and privately owned companies could be the remedy for increased wage theft and millions of dollars in campaign contributions that fund New York's politicians.

Aiding and Abetting: Anonymity Lets LLCs Rip Off Employees

With no way of knowing who actually occupies a home owned by a LLC, enforcement of the city’s personal income tax law can prove an impossible task, and can make tax evasion as easy as pie.
By Daniel R. Bright

Co-op Flop: City Reassesing Serious Tax Hikes

If the computer’s don’t kill us, the taxes will. The city’s Department of Finance began using a new formula along
By Matt Chaban

Are Landlords Enlisting Tenants in Property-Tax Fight?

To have landlords team up with tenants doesn’t generally seem like a very plausible notion; as political forces, after all,
By Eliot Brown

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