Damon Dash Is One Of New York’s Top Delinquent Taxpayers Of 2019

They’re making a list, they’re checking it twice — and this is who the bean counters say have been naughty this year.

New York state has released its list of the top 250 delinquent taxpayers of 2019, and it’s littered with boldface names.

Damon Dash — the former music mogul who was arrested in November for allegedly owing more than $400,000 in child support — comes in at No. 40, according to the Department of Taxation and Finance.

Dash has been on the list for several years, including 2007, 2012 and 2015, and his total outstanding balance rings in at over $2 million.

Restaurateur Nello Balan — the former owner of pricey Upper East Side Italian spot Nello, and also a regular on the list — comes in at No. 43, owing more than $2 million.

Balan’s financial woes have been a Page Six staple. His post-Nello company, Be My Guest LLC — which was supposed to open a space on West 58th Street, but became locked in a vicious legal battle with the former occupant — filed for bankruptcy in 2007. And an outpost of Nello in Aspen, Colo., was shuttered in 2016 after six months with more than $300,000 in liens from suppliers, according to local reports.

Balan said via email: “It is wrong, my ex-associate owns that, my account is doing an audit.”

Also on the list is Jason Apfelbaum, former owner of Midtown theatrical dining experience Sushi Roxx. In July 2018, Page Six reported that the restaurant unexpectedly shuttered and that the staff’s paychecks bounced. “He went completely MIA,” said a source at the time. “He seriously just ghosted.”

Apfelbaum owes $726,558.37.

Beyond New York, Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott, are listed on the government’s 500 largest tax delinquencies over $100,000.

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