Suffolk asks state to look into $5M tax mistake
Suffolk Comptroller Joseph Sawicki has asked state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to audit the state Department of Taxation and Finance to find out how it mistakenly paid the county $5 million for sales tax that was never collected.
"It is extremely disturbing that the NYS Tax Department actually paid Suffolk County this erroneous amount before detecting such a material error," Sawicki said in...
