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9 ‘tax lien’ firms push for sick-leave bill

They want more government mandates but can’t even pay their taxes.

The state has 25 tax liens against nine companies that signed on to an online petition encouraging City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to pass a bill requiring that only those businesses with more than five employees offer paid sick days, The Post has learned.

More than 100 companies signed the online letter last week.

Culver Pictures in Queens was hit with nine state tax liens between 2005 and 2008, ranging from $119 to a whopping $44,648.

Harriet Culver, who owns the three-employee business, said her support for the legislation has nothing to do with her own liens, some of which she said she has cleared.

“I think it’s the right thing to do for the issue,” she said, explaining that she does not offer a specific number of paid sick days but has never penalized an employee for taking them.

Culver Pictures would be exempt from the bill, which is being amended to require that all companies with more than five workers offer their full-time staff five paid sick days a year.

Supporters of the measure rallied on the steps of City Hall yesterday — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer was there with his 10-month-old son — and handed boxes containing petitions with 50,000 signatures to Quinn’s staff.

Quinn shelved the bill in 2010 and has shown no interest in passing it.