New York Daily News

The most taxing job in N.Y.

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Godspeed to the newly appointed members of a long-promised commission charged with delivering to Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson recommenda­tions to repair a deeply damaged system for setting New York City’s all-overthe-place property taxes.

Here, a mayor who’s devoting his second term to the theme of making New York “the fairest city in America” owes less in taxes on either of his two million-dollar-plus Park Slope homes than a working stiff in Canarsie does on his more humble abode.

Budget and housing experts have already studied the warped system’s shortcomin­gs and found that artificial­ly low taxes on homeowners force tenants into overpaying by billions of dollars.

De Blasio and the Council have made their job harder by insisting there be no reduction in revenues, this after payments by property owners have soared every year de Blasio has served so far, the better to finance a rapidly rising budget.

Meantime, taxpayers and tenants sue the city and state demanding a thorough overhaul to address what they say are illegal economic and racial inequities.

Into this happy fray, co-chairs Vicki Been, the city’s former housing commission­er, and former Bloomberg deputy mayor Marc Shaw will confront the city’s taxpayers at 10 or more planned public hearings.

Someone get these guys combat pay.

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