How can you get a refund of city of yonkers income taxes improperly deducted?

My niece neither works nor lives in Yonkers. Her employer mistakenly withheld Yonkers income taxes for the 1st half of the year. How can we get them back?

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1. File a NY State return. The Yonkers withholding will be put on the return, but will be refunded if there is an overall refund. If your niece worked in Manhattan, instead, the withholding will be applied to NYC tax on the same return, so it will take care of itself. --A Damn Fine Tax Advisor
2. File a New York State tax return showing all of her income and show the amount of Yonkers withholding tax. It will come back with the New York State refund
3. When your niece files her taxes, she will put down her current residency. She will file taxes as a non-resident of Yonkers, they will send back the funds. She will then file another state tax for the state that she resides (if it is required). But there is a possibility that she will owe taxes for that state since taxes was not paid during the year to that state. Hope this helps!
4. File with the city ... as a non resident and then she will get it back .. unfortunatly! Good Luck!
5. give the employer a written request for return of the tax money