According to its tax filing, Taxpayers for an Affordable New York Inc. describes itself as civic leagues, social welfare organizations, and local associations of employees, created to promote community welfare for charitable, educational or recreational purposes. The New York Post describes the group as follows : A group of powerful business organizations is preparing to fight a proposed “millionaire’s tax” they say will drive affluent New Yorkers out of state. Taxpayers for an Affordable NY includes the Business Council of New York, the Real Estate Board of New York, and the Rent Stabilization Association – a trio of groups that came together once before, in the early 1990s, to fight property tax hikes.