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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...

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