VOTE NO 3rd ave BID Send us your NO vote, email, walk in, call and we will pick the NO vote up we are doing this for everyone

A 5th ave property owner sent us his property tax statement. He did NOT WANT THE BID and did not pay for it on his property taxes – guess what? the city of New York charged him interest! A BID IS A TAX – YOU MUST PAY IT OR BE FINED! Facts not feelings Vote NO to the 3rd ave bid tax!

A BID WILL NOT STOP THE CITY FROM FINING US! The garbage trucks did not pick up on their scheduled days, so, we the hard working people of 3rd ave, watched today as the city gave dozens of stores garbage tickets – these tickets are $100 each! A few were cleaning up the garbage not picked up, and were begging the enforcement people NOT to give tickets – “Hey i am cleaning why am i still getting a ticket” – We were ignored and fined! Will a BID have stopped these tickets? Would a BID have stopped the city from attacking us knowing the garbage trucks did not come on…

A BID is a tax Tax assessment, or assessment, is the job of determining the value, and sometimes determining the use, of property, usually to calculate a property tax. This is usually done by an office called the assessor or tax assessor. Governments need to collect taxes in order to function. A TAX BY ANOTHER NAME IS STILL A TAX!!!!!!!!!!!!! The BID and merchants association think we all are stupid! FIGHT the city they say – the city is NOT A winning battle – THE BID TAX/ASSESSMENT IS – NO NEW ASSESSMENTS, NO NEW TAXES – ENOUGH!@ JOIN Almost 500 of your fellow merchants and p[property owners that voted NO…

I have been thinking, I do it a lot – why do we need a BID tax when all our expenses are up? Ponder as i may the answer did not come – why vote for another tax – which will be more burdensome? We do not pay for the merchant association today so why should we be forced to pay a BID tax forever and a day? Its clear to us, 458 strong, we don’t need another tax and the ones pushing for this have got it all wrong! A BID is a TAX, it can never be removed, it always needs more even if we don’t approve. Vote…

Vindication that the city knew and capitalized on the taxi drivers. NOW they want money to bail it out – double tax dip on all of us – and they want us to pay for a BID? Vote NO to the 3rd ave BID TAX! AG accuses city of taxi-medallion fraud, seeks $810M for drivers State Attorney General Letitia James says the city fraudulently inflated the value of yellow-cab medallions before they crashed. The attorney general on Thursday formally informed city officials, including the Taxi and Limousine Commission, that she plans to sue for fraud and will seek $810 million to compensate drivers who borrowed money to purchase them. [Crain’s…

Ask the BID committee/Merchant association the hard questions. By their OWN admission they cant collect enough money to go on – Think about this: If we don’t voluntarily pay NOW – WHY would we want to be forced to pay with a tax? The merchant association collects less than 30% of their dues because the same old people do the same old things and we the people do not find enough value in it – hence why we do not pay! NOW to punish us, the same people with the same failed ideas want to tax us to pay for their same failures! A BID is a tax, A BID…

ASK the hard questions! How much money is it costing to start the BID? Where are they getting the money for their advertising? Are they using OUR merchant association funds for this? WHY cant Brannan pay for the lights when he can get money for this BID? How much is Perch group being paid? They are being deceptive, they think by NOT answering any questions YOU will forget – imaging AFTER they get $560,000 of our money!3 more property owners voted NO to the 3rd ave BID as of yesterday! ITS TIME TO END THIS TAX! VOTE NO TO ANY NEW TAX!a bid is a tax, a bid always increases,…

3rd Ave Lights can be saved WITHOUT A TAX. Councilman brannan Justin Brannan gave the BID committee $36,000 of our money, 5th ave received $300,000 of our money to study a problem they spent over $7 million and failed to solve – basic math – $300,000 + $36,000 = $360,000 – 3rd ave lights cost $30k a year THAT’S 10 YEARS OF LIGHTS without a tax – Councilman brannan and the BID must explain why they cant have the lights paid for without a TAX! facts – NEVER trust anyone that says “there’s no other way” than wants to tax all of us – Ask them all the hard questions…

“Its OK we collect these TAXES” says the 3rd ave bid web site BID web site while posting pictures of businesses and people THAT VOTED NO TO THE BID! Very deceptive! A BID is a TAX, A BID never goes away, A BID always increases! The city is NOW charging ALL of us for our storefronts – we are being taxed for having a business! A BID will be an ADDITIONAL DOUBLE TAX on all of us.