{"id":294685,"date":"2026-07-13T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294685\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:39:09","slug":"millionaires-cant-stop-leaving-lefty-new-york-and-its-cost-the-state-nearly-11b-in-tax-revenue-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294685\/","title":{"rendered":"Millionaires can&#8217;t stop leaving lefty New York \u2014 and it&#8217;s cost the state nearly $11B in tax revenue: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lacks the rich.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s share of US millionaires dramatically declined in recent years, causing a nearly $11 billion loss in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/05\/opinion\/mamdani-fancies-himself-a-financial-whiz-hes-in-for-a-nyc-budget-surprise-come-january\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">much-needed tax revenue<\/a> in just one year, according to a bombshell new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Zuchman, Joseph Stiglitz, and NYC Mayor Mamdani speak at a Tax Day Forum. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The study released Monday by the Citizen Budget Commisison showed the Empire State\u2019s share of the nation\u2019s millionaires dipped from 12.7% to 8.7% between 2010 and 2022 \u2013 the largest decline of any state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York\u2019s declining share of high-income taxpayers has meaningful consequences,\u201d the analysis states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad New York maintained its share of the nation\u2019s millionaires over the past decade, personal income tax collections would have been substantially higher \u2013 roughly $10.7 billion more in tax year 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The analysis shows that New York had the second-largest share of the nation\u2019s millionaires \u2013 12.7% \u2013 in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Out with the old, in with the dues, shows Mamdani being sworn in as the 112th mayor. csuarez<\/p>\n<p>By 2022, the state actually had roughly more 34,000 millionaires, but other states far outpaced that growth, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York\u2019s number of millionaires doubled, but it tripled in California and Texas and quadrupled in Florida, leaving New York State with the fourth-most millionaires behind those states,\u201d the study states.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani X post, stating \u201cWe\u2019re taxing the rich.\u201d Mayor Mamdani\/X<\/p>\n<p>The study comes amid fears that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/29\/us-news\/pied-a-terre-tax-notices-go-out-aug-30-to-owners-of-luxury-second-homes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s push to \u201ctax the rich\u201d<\/a> will drive more wealthy out of New York City and the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lacks the rich. New York\u2019s share of US millionaires dramatically declined in recent years, causing a nearly $11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,27774,9,24,55,54,56,58],"class_list":["post-294685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-millionaires","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294685","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=294685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}