{"id":1248401,"date":"2022-01-27T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248401"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:23:23","slug":"rep-jeffries-pays-250-in-property-taxes-on-brooklyn-condo-due-to-generous-tax-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jeffries-pays-250-in-property-taxes-on-brooklyn-condo-due-to-generous-tax-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Jeffries Pays $250 in Property Taxes on Brooklyn Condo Due to Generous Tax Break\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-jeffries-pays-250-in-property-taxes-on-brooklyn-condo-due-to-generous-tax-break%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248401&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1188056047-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">While millions of New Yorkers pay thousands in property taxes, Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) pays just $250 in taxes on his Brooklyn condo thanks to a generous tax break he helped get passed into law.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries\u2019 quarterly property tax bill due in April is a mere $52.69, according to the New York City Finance Department. His previous three quarterly bills were $52.69, $52.97, and $52.97. The records show he has paid approximately $250 in annual property taxes since 2010.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following reports of his sweetheart tax deal, Jeffries claimed his family is at risk and invoked the January 6 Capitol riots in his defense.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Eichar, a spokesperson for Jeffries&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/23\/rep-hakeem-jeffries-pays-200-in-property-taxes-thanks-to-sweetheart-subsidy-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and his family have been specifically targeted with threats of violence on January 6th and thereafter. The effort to single out his home with phony outrage over a tax abatement his and 30,000 properties in Brooklyn have qualified for since their construction is reckless, irresponsible and may ultimately put his family at risk. Shame on you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeffries can pay so little in property taxes because he co-sponsored and voted to renew the tax break during his time as a member of the New York State Assembly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the<em>&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/23\/rep-hakeem-jeffries-pays-200-in-property-taxes-thanks-to-sweetheart-subsidy-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The law provides developers and residents property tax breaks over 25 or 35 years in exchange for making at least 20 percent of the apartments \u201caffordable\u201d for moderate- to low-income residents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The generous tax scheme costs the New York City treasury upwards of $1.6 billion in annual property tax revenues. While Jeffries pays as little as $250, the median property tax in his city is over $5,000. A Queens homeowner&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/23\/rep-hakeem-jeffries-pays-200-in-property-taxes-thanks-to-sweetheart-subsidy-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;the<em> New York Post<\/em> his annual property tax is more than $9,000.<\/p>\n<p>Local housing activists blasted Jeffries, calling him \u201cabusive\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d for taking advantage of the tax break. \u201cWith all due respect, Hakeem Jeffries doesn\u2019t need help in paying his full property taxes,\u201d said Michael McKee, treasurer of Tenants PAC.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Sliwa, former Republican mayoral candidate, said Jeffries is an example of \u201cclassic New York chutzpah.\u201d Sliwa&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/23\/rep-hakeem-jeffries-pays-200-in-property-taxes-thanks-to-sweetheart-subsidy-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jeffries walks around like he\u2019s a man of the people. Meanwhile he\u2019s ripping people off. It\u2019s a ripoff of the taxpayers. He\u2019s happy to get this sweetheart deal while screwing the public. Pay your fair share of property taxes, Congressman Jeffries! Stand up and set an example. Make up for how long you\u2019ve been ripping off the system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t look like Jeffries will start paying the total value of his property tax anytime soon. New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D)&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/18\/gov-hochul-proposes-216b-ny-budget-fueled-by-covid-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended<\/a>&nbsp;extending the tax break in her proposed $216 billion budget plan revealed last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While millions of New Yorkers pay thousands in property taxes, Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) pays just $250 in taxes on his Brooklyn condo thanks to a generous tax break &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}