Edward Mangano’s Staff Was Warned about End of Tax Abatement

Newsday recently reported that top staff members for Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano were warned back in July that a popular property tax abatement was due to expire. This abatement cut an average of $166 from senior citizens’ tax bills, and there are no plans for it to be re-applied in 2017. Although his staff members were told that this would happen, Mangano neglected to inform the approximately 44,000 senior citizens who received the abatement, much to their chagrin when they received their general tax bills in the mail. Nassau lawmakers and the county comptroller also complained that they did not know about the end of the tax abatement.

Mangano’s chief deputy county attorney and budget director were notified via email on July 21, 2016 that the abatement had expired. Two other county officials who also received the email said the announcement came from the assessment department. A spokesman for Mangano said the county executive never learned about the expiration of the abatement. Additionally, the date referenced in the email was after the State Legislature finished convening for the year, so it was too late fix the problem last year.

Nassau Legislator Laura Curran said that seniors should have received advance notice of the abatement coming to an end, while County Comptroller George Maragos claimed that Mangano knew about this, but refused to alert the seniors about the expiration anyway.

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