New York Post

De BlasioBla paid 20% taxes on 217G

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Mayor de Blasio and his wife paid $ 44,130 in federal, state and city income come taxes last year on an income of $ 217,656, according to filings provided by City Hall Wednesday.

While Hizzoner’s salary as mayor is $ 225,000, pension contributi­ons and other adjustment­s lowered it. De Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray ( left), also took in $ 56,200 by renting a property near their Park Slope home and $ 9,950 for two months’ rent at their house itself, which they vacated last year for Gracie Mansion.

Both properties provided tax savings thanks to depreciati­on and related expenses. As a result, the first couple’s tax rate was 20.3 percent.

In 2013, the de Blasios paid an even lower rate of 15.5 percent on his then salary as public advocate, of $ 165,000.

Meanwhile, de Blasio called for more taxes on “millionair­es” in a speech at the University of Nebraska Wednesday night.

“Whenever the wealthy aren’t paying their fair share of taxes there are consequenc­es. It means we’re shortchang­ing something else,” he said. “We have an opportunit­y here to change the trajectory of this.”

He was met by a small group of protesters who decried his talk of taxes.

“It’s income redistribu­tion,” said Nebraskan, Henry Burke. “He’s a communist. Yoav Gonen, Michael Gartland

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