Residents irate after Long Island town sticks its homeowners with shock $7M bill after losing lawsuit to golf course: ‘They’re f–king us’

Source: New York Post

Residents of one Long Island town are fuming after learning they were being slapped with a sneaky spike on their property tax bills — since the suburb owes millions to a local luxury golf course. The town of Riverhead is leaving taxpayers on the hook for over $7 million in refunds — roughly $6 million of which stem from a lawsuit the town lost after a shoddy tax assessment of the Friar’s Head golf course, residents and sources confirmed. Some homeowners said they were left shell-shocked after noticing a roughly 160% hike in the “New York State Real Property Tax Law” line on their property taxes with no warning from town officials.