Mount Kisco is suing a hotel and three executives for allegedly failing to pay room occupancy taxes for five years.
The village demanded nearly $779,000 from Hotel MTK and the Roedel Companies, in a complaint filed on March 31 in Westchester Supreme Court.
Under the Mount Kisco Code, the complaint states, “officers of a corporate operator are personally liable” for the taxes.
In 2013, Roedel Companies, of Wilton, New Hampshire, paid $8.5 million for a 122-room Holiday Inn near Kisco Avenue and Saw Mill River Parkway, at 1 Holiday Inn Drive. (The street has since been renamed Pat Reilly Way, a former mayor who died in 2023.)
In 2016, Roedel completed major renovations and rebranded the property as Hotel MTK, a part of the Hilton Tapestry Collection of locally-themed boutique hotels.
In 2017, Mount Kisco enacted a 3% room occupancy tax, requiring operators to keep records of room rentals and taxes collected. Failure to file tax returns or pay taxes could cost up to 25% per year in penalties.
Mount Kisco alleges that Roedel filed no tax returns or filed partial tax returns from October 2020 through October 2025, and failed to pay the full amounts owed.
On Feb. 18, the village demanded $778,752: including $389,809 in taxes, $251,113 in penalties, and $137,831 in accrued interest. The sum could increase, according to the complaint, for taxes not fully reported for three months last year.
Fred B. Roedel, as co-founder and majority owner, David W. Roedel, co-founder and business development officer, and Fred B. Roedel III, chief financial officer, are liable for the taxes, the complaint states. (According to online obituaries, founder Fred B. Roedel died on Feb. 23.)
Roedel Companies did not reply to a message asking for its side of the story.
Mount Kisco is represented by attorney Jonathan B. Nelson, of Dorf Nelson & Zauderer, in Rye.
