New York Post

‘Fickle’ Nixon gives quick peek at taxes

- By KIRSTAN CONLEY and RUTH BROWN Additional reporting by Carl Campanile

Cynthia Nixon finally offered a look at her 2017 tax returns Friday — revealing that she and her wife pulled in $1.9 million last year, but squirreled part of it away in a corporatio­n called “Fickle Mermaid.”

The “Sex and the City” star’s gubernator­ial campaign allowed a dozen journalist­s to look at the returns for just two hours in Albany, where photograph­y was forbidden.

On her personal return, Nixon and Christine Marinoni reported a gross adjusted income of $619,799 in 2017, paying $150,600 in taxes to the feds and $62,866 to New York City and state.

Fickle Mermaid Corp. — which she uses as a clearing house for her acting work to reduce her tax-liability exposure — pulled in $1.1 million. She extracted $400,000 of that as wages for her personal return.

Fickle Mermaid wrote off $511,486 in expenses.

Meanwhile, Marinoni earned $128,092 from her job at the Department of Education, which she left in March ahead of Nixon’s campaign launch. The couple also made $185,786 by selling a house in Montauk for $575,000.

Nixon pulled in extra scratch from various Hollywood entities, including $1,805 from Warner Bros. and $9,779 from a company called Force Residual.

It’s unclear how much, if any, came from the “Sex and the City” movies and HBO series.

When it came to charity, the couple listed personal donations of $7,979 without specifying where they went. The bulk of their giving was through the Nixon-Marinoni Family Foundation, which gave $47,987 to nonprofits ranging from WNYC Public Radio to the Roundabout Theatre Company.

The returns were made available a day after Gov. Cuomo blasted Nixon for failing to disclose them in April — a lag she blamed on having particular­ly “complicate­d” returns filed in several states.

Cuomo demanded Friday that she also release her taxes from past years.

“One year is not enough . . . no one historical­ly would release one year,” he said, adding that the only reason to not divulge more is “you’re hiding something.”

Nixon’s campaign shot back that Cuomo himself has released only one year of returns at a time.

But Cuomo released the previous 14 years of returns when he was running for attorney general in 2006. Since then he has released them yearly.

On Thursday, Politico revealed that Nixon’s foundation between 2012 and 2016 donated tens of thousands of dollars to groups now supporting her campaign.

The governor’s own tax returns show he earned $212,776 in 2017 and paid $41,765 in federal taxes and $12,782 in state axes.

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