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Article: County stonewalls bid for tax debt data: Mystery hotel owner owes $500,000.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2007
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Byline: Matthew Spina
Jun. 21--Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz and other county officials have denied requests made under New York's Freedom of Information Law to identify the hotel owner who has kept $500,000 in bed taxes that must be forwarded to county government.
Poloncarz, in a May audit, had said aides to County Executive Joel A. Giambra should have done more to collect from the delinquent hotel owner, who has frustrated county officials for at least 14 years.
The bed tax had been charged to hotel guests but never turned over to the government, even though officials customized three payment plans for the hotel owner since 1993.
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