Jankolovits v. Tax Commission

—In four related proceedings pursuant to RPTL article 7, title 1 and 1-A, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Scholnick, J.), dated June 17, 1999, which denied the appellants’ motion, inter alia, to dismiss the proceedings.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the proceedings are dismissed.

In 1997, Empire Tax Reductions, Inc. (hereinafter Empire), filed, on behalf of property owners, 1,181 applications for correction of the tentative assessed value of their properties. Of those, 593 applications were signed by the…