{"id":320196,"date":"2026-08-13T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320196\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:10:09","slug":"trump-lacks-legal-power-to-stop-nyc-second-home-tax-lawyers-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320196\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lacks Legal Power to Stop NYC Second Home Tax, Lawyers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is unlikely to block the rollout of New York City\u2019s pied-\u00e0-terre tax because the federal government is limited in its ability to intervene on state tax issues, tax attorneys said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Trump said he was <a data-terminal-id=\"TJM62KT9NJLT\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/new-york-brief\/trump-says-us-weighing-attempt-to-stop-nyc-pied-a-terre-tax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking into<\/a> whether his administration \u201chas any legal right to avert\u201d the tax on second homes, which he said would drive affluent people out of the city, hurting the local economy. But states have broad authority to set their own local levies unless they conflict with federal law, said Hayes Holderness, a professor at the University of Richmond School &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is unlikely to block the rollout of New York City\u2019s pied-\u00e0-terre tax because the federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-320196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320196","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=320196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}