Shutterstock The New York Times recently released an in-depth investigation into the influx of foreign wealth in the New York City luxury real estate market.

纽约时报近日发布了深入的调查，大量海外财富涌入纽约市豪华房地产市场。

The piece, by Louise Story and Stephanie Saul, notes that Mayor Michael Bloomberg courted foreign buyers throughout his time in office.

Louise Story和Stephanie Saul指出长迈克尔·布隆伯格在他在任的期间试图取悦海外买家。

we could get every billionaire around the world to move here, it would be a godsend, he famously said in a 2013 radio interview. " They are the ones that pay a lot of the taxes, and we take the tax revenues from those people to help people throughout the entire rest of the spectrum. 

2013年，在即将卸任之际，纽约市长迈克尔·R·布隆伯格(Michael R. Bloomberg)在自己广播节目中说：“如果我们能让全世界的亿万富翁都搬到这座城市来，那可真是天大的好事。”那将会是大量的税收，我们可以将这些税收用于帮助那些穷困需要帮助的人。

He believed that wealth would eventually trickle down and stimulate the economy as those foreign billionaires spent money in New York, employed household staffs, and paid their property and income taxes.

他相信这些财富最终会通过使总财富增加使得穷人受益，并且促进海外富豪在当地的消费，还能带动家庭劳务人员就业，为他们提供住所并且缴纳收入所得税。

But that equation has proven problematic. Since most of these foreign billionaires are not living and working full-time in New York City, they are not paying city income taxes, and because New York City has some extreme tax breaks for luxury real estate projects, they are not paying substantial taxes on their real estate holdings, either.

但是这种经济公式证明是有问题的。由于大多数这些外国富豪并非生活活工作在纽约城，所以，他们无须支付城市收入所得税，且纽约豪华房地产项目还提供一些极端税收优惠，因此他们也根本不需要支付高额房产持有税。

These property tax savings come from an affordable housing program known as 421-a. Essentially, 421-a promises huge, long-term tax breaks on luxury properties as long as the developers also build affordable and moderate-income apartments.

这些税收减免来自于被称为421-A的经济适用房计划。从本质上讲，只要开发商还建设保障性和中等收入的公寓，421-A计划是一个对高端地产长期减税的政策巨大且长期的承诺。

The legislation allowed luxury properties such as uber-luxury high-rise One57 to receive a 95% tax break.

立法规定豪华房产可以获得95%的避税优惠。

But there are significant problems with 421-a. Not only is it under investigation by US attorney Preet Bharara, but some developers are reportedly double-dipping by receiving benefits for future luxury projects with previously built affordable housing units.

但有421-a有个重大问题。它不仅是在调查的美国律师普里特巴拉拉，而且有些开发商通过接收为未来的豪宅项目与此前建保障性住房两面沾光获得利益。

Opponents of the controversial program which is set to expire this summer estimate that the city has lost out on hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

这些有争议的项目，将于今年夏天到期，反对者们预计这座城市已经每年在数以亿计的亏损。

And most of these foreign buyers use their apartments only occasionally, meaning they aren't pumping cash into the city's economy. One recent study found that more than half of the apartments in the midtown neighborhood that encompasses "Billionaires' Row" sit empty for most of the year.

大多数海外买家只是偶尔使用他们的公寓，这就意味着他们不会向该市经济注入太多资金。最近一项研究发现在市中心附近一半以上的住宅，包括"亿万富翁行列"的这些公寓大部分时间都处于空置状态。

So even though wealthy foreigners certainly love New York for their gorgeous penthouse views and strong returns on their real estate investments, New York should maybe think twice about loving them so much in return.

所以即使富有的海外人士确实爱纽约的华丽阁楼并在他们的房地产投资取得丰厚的回报，纽约仍需三思这些买家对于回报如此热衷。

*原文摘要来自于Yahoo Finance