Tax Watch: Yonkers fixes slipshod tax collection

... the sale of their real estate. Once 3 percent, the tax dipped to 1 percent before rising to 1.5 percent in 2005. Peekskill and Mount Vernon are the only other municipalities in the Lower Hudson Valley with a transfer tax. Both cities charge 1 ...

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