{"id":131757,"date":"2026-02-12T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131757\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:34:10","slug":"frozen-tax-audits-cost-nyc-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131757\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Tax Audits Cost NYC Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Noonan, a tax lawyer, says most of his clients\u2019 state audits cover tax periods from two or three years ago. In New York City, he\u2019s got cases that have been lingering since 2013. <\/p>\n<p>The reason: New York City\u2019s Tax Appeals Tribunal, a little-known municipal agency formed to resolve non-property tax disputes, is backlogged with cases after seeing high turnover in the number of judges who hear challenges. <\/p>\n<p>The tribunal\u2014which shares a small, $6.5 million budget with other tax forums\u2014has issued no more than four rulings a year since 2020. It released none in 2024 and just two decisions last &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy Noonan, a tax lawyer, says most of his clients\u2019 state audits cover tax periods from two or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56417,56418,42109,56420,5593,9,56,63,65,64,5592,56419],"class_list":["post-131757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-corporate-income-tax","tag-federal-agency-budget","tag-federal-tax","tag-hiring","tag-municipal-tax","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-property-tax","tag-tax-audits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}