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County Could Not Avoid or Delay Payment of Property Tax Refund on Financial Hardship Grounds

The Second Department determined the county did not make a sufficient showing of “fiscal chaos” to allow it to avoid immediate payment of a refund the  overpayment of property taxes:

Contrary to the appellants’ contention, the decisions of the Court of Appeals … do not stand for the proposition that a court may decline to issue an award of damages or refunds against a municipality whenever such award will result in financial hardship … . “Instead, these cases stand for the more limited proposition that, where a municipality has reasonably relied upon a widespread and longstanding practice (as in Matter of Hellerstein) or a statute is later invalidated (as in Foss), and where applying the invalidation retroactively would call into question a settled assessment roll or property rights based thereon,’ a court may exercise its discretion by giving its holding only prospective application” … . No such situation is present in the instant case. Accordingly, under the circumstances presented here, the Supreme Court properly rejected the appellants’ “fiscal chaos” defense, and granted the petitioner’s motion to compel the appellants to satisfy obligations that they incurred in connection with the stipulation of settlement and, thus, to calculate and pay the refund owed to it. Matter of Long Is Automotive Group Inc v Board of Assessors of Nassau County, 2014 Slip Op 02586, 2nd Dept 4-16-14

 

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