Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
NASTY!! VERY, VERY NASTY!!
Foreclosures And property tax delinquencies are up everywhere in the state.
We already know the executive budget coming out of Albany says it will give taxpayers a little help with this calamity when it has some extra money sometime in the future, maybe…L
But here are a few nasty items you should know about [...]
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
It’s not nice that in the district that is #1 out of 692 school districts in NY in the number of residents failing to pay their property taxes,
town residents are assessed some of the highest property taxes in
the nation.
Families in that district report paying up to 48% of their income in
property taxes. AND
The school district [...]
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
“…….the overall collaboration of state and local taxes results in an unfair, regressive system. This is caused by a significant reliance on sales, excise, and property taxes, which have a disproportionate impact on lower and middle-income taxpayers.”
From There’s a BETTER CHOICE for NY.
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
TAKE A SEAT FOR A QUICK DEFINITION OF TERMS…..
BEFORE I GIVE MY VERSION OF WHAT WENT DOWN IN ALBANY YESTERDAY…1/23/10
at a meeting sponsored by There’s a BETTER CHOICE for NY .
The purpose of the meeting, convened by Ron Deutsch (New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness (his day job) and Omnibus Consortium Coordinator) was to go [...]
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
I ( AND OTHER REFORMERS) DO NOT ENJOY FINDING OBJECTIONABLE (OR WORSE) every utterance on property tax relief or reform that issues forth from the governor’s press office or budget division…but we have no choice because there hasn’t been a single scrap of real relief or reform from that quarter…on the contrary, his office has [...]