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New York AG: Sotheby's helped rich art lover skirt taxes

by Jennifer Peltz
| November 9, 2020 12:09 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Sotheby's helped an art collector dodge millions of dollars in New York sales taxes, the state attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Friday, accusing the prominent auction house of accepting bogus documentation to spare a top client a tax bill.

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