Personal Injury Firm Stuck With New York City Business Tax Bill

Personal injury law firm Morrison & Wagner LLP didn’t provide enough evidence that it did work outside of New York City to reduce its city business tax bill, a tribunal ruled in an opinion released Wednesday.

The firm failed to convince the New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal to throw out a stipulation of facts that its former representative signed with the City Department of Finance that barred the parties from presenting additional evidence at a hearing.

Administrative Law Judge John J. Mulligan rejected the firm’s argument that the department “duped” the representative—who is an accountant, not a lawyer—into locking ...