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These New York tax lawyers cover all areas of tax law including Internal Revenue Service matters, audits, payroll taxes, back taxes, OIC, disputes, partnerships and more.

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Wickwire Gavin has a strong background in traditional corporate and commercial law. We regularly represent clients in a variety of transactional and litigation matters, including formation, management and sales of businesses, asset dispositions, debtor/creditor selections and a broad variety of business-related issues.

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April 26, 2007

New York Ciy Tax Case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with a case that sounds local but has the makings of an international incident: whether the city of New York can take the nations of India and Mongolia to federal court in a dispute over property taxes.

At stake in the case Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations v. The City of New York is more than $18 million in back taxes the city claims it is owed for the portions of the countries' U.N. mission buildings that house employees. It is undisputed that the missions themselves are untaxable under international treaties, but the city claims that 20 residential floors of India's 26-floor mission and the top half of Mongolia's six-floor mission are subject to tax because they are used for staff housing, not diplomatic purposes.

In New York City, unpaid property taxes become liens on the property. But when the city went to federal court to enforce the liens, India and Mongolia argued that the federal courts have no jurisdiction. The nations also argued that because the staff housing is essential to their missions, it should be tax-exempt like the missions themselves. Lower courts sided with New York, finding that a provision of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act allows for federal court jurisdiction in disputes over "immovable property."

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