Property owners say they’re fed up with taxes
As city report circulates, hope for relief rises
SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN — The release of a city-commissioned report on property taxes has spawned hope and outrage in Southwest Brooklyn neighborhoods — hope that the complicated tax system can be simplified and outrage that the taxes are so high in the first place.
The outrage is equally distributed between residential and commercial property owners, as the Home Reporter found out following the release of a long-awaited report from the New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform on Jan. 30.