Exclusive | Mamdani plans pressure campaign to push for slew of tax hikes including one that could squeeze black homeowners

Zo him the money!Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is hatching plans for months-long pressure campaign demanding a sweeping slate of state tax hikes — along with a renewed push to slap new levies on already burdened city property owners, The Post has learned.The full-speed-ahead tax push will kick off with a rally after Labor Day to apply maximum pressure ahead of the 2027 state legislative session and just as Gov.Kathy Hochul re-election campaign enters its final stretch, according to sources with knowledge of City Hall’s battle plans.The sources revealed Mamdani and his minions want Albany to deliver “tax the rich” wins on day one of the next legislative session, with their still-in-the works demands including a hike on the wealthy and an expanded corporate taxes.The social-media socialist is also resurrecting his massively unpopular scheme to fill Big Apple coffers on the backs of homeowners, while attempting to reform the city’s notoriously unfair property tax system — a herculean effort that risks the mayor further alienating black and brown New Yorkers.“Property tax reform has been a third rail for mayor after mayor because it is essentially a massive tax increase for many Black and brown homeowners,” an incredulous Democratic insider said.“The fact that Mamdani is looking to go ahead with this plan is just further proof that his base and his background do not understand the historic economic struggles of those communities, nor apparently care about their vote.”The nitty-gritty of Mamdani’s grand tax demands for this fall remain largely on the drawing board, sources said.But the mayor’s unquenchable thirst for New Yorkers’ hard-earned money comes even after Albany bailed the city out from financial ruin, while delivering him a political win with a pied-à-terre tax, an added levy on luxury second homes in New York City.Hochul delivered the handouts after Mamdani’s initial demand for higher taxes on the wealthy, threatening to hike cit...