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Tax Collectors Clampdown Jamaican businesses
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Vol: 7 No. 16
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SEPTEMBER 1-18, 2012
• Nakisaki Restaurant owes $103,413 in taxes • Brammers Subway at Nostrand Inc. owes $30,159
By Patrick Maitland, Street Hype’s Editor ays after the Nassau County Supreme Court granted a temporary stay halting an auction of the Nakisaki Restaurant’s assets for some $103,413 in unpaid taxes, the 22-year-old Jamaican-Chinese owned and operated business is now up for sale. The building is listed on by the Court. "They just told the Unlimited Homes Realty us, 'Get your personal stuff and Corporation website and was get out.' We do owe sales taxes, bank-appraised at $3.2 million, and we have been paying relihowever the family is willing giously," Lyn said. "But every to sell for less, Street Hype time we pay, they want more,” she added. understands. Meanwhile, JamaicanLocated in Hempstead, Nakisaki is among the growing born entrepreneur Roland list of companies being served Brammer, owner of Brammers with tax warrants and auc- Subway at Nostrand Inc and tioned to recover outstanding operator of two Subway stores on Nostrand Road and Fulton New York State taxes. The assets of Nakisaki was Street in Brooklyn was also seized by the New York State served with three State Tax tax department on August 1 for Lien Notices dated November the unpaid taxes and was 10, 2011, April 24, 2012 and scheduled for the auction block July 19, 2012 and totaling $30,159, according to the New on August 29. However a last-minute York State Tax Department reprieve was given when the website. Tax officials observed that Court granted a temporary stay halting an auction of the restau- with late fees and penalties Brammer’s total tax obligation rant's assets. The restaurant had 10 war- to the State should be over rants issued between March $100,000, while his assets are 2011 and June 2012. Five of being ceased and auctioned by the warrants, totaling $30,570, the Tax Department. Brammer who was recentwere related to withholding tax, and five warrants, totaling ly honored by the Comets Club $72,843, were related to sales International, a New York Citytax, tax department spokesper- based charitable organization, for his outstanding contribution son Cary B. Ziter confirmed. "There was no warning," and commitment to community family matriarch and office development, declined to commanager Dorothy Lyn, 72 said ment on the matter. after the injunction was granted
Roland Brammer Jamaican-born entrepreneur & owner of Brammers Subway
However his colleagues in the Jamaican Diaspora movement expressed sympathy and wished him all the best for the future. The Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations (UJAA) launched a drive to raise funds to save the Nakisaki from the Tax
Karlene Largie President, Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations
Department’s auction. UJAA’s president Karlene Largie said members of the coordinating umbrella for approximately 38 different Jamaican Alumni Associations based in New York have been approached to help save Nakisaki restaurant. Continued on page 5