Keyword: taxes
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray announced the town’s proposed 2012 budget last Friday, heralding it as a spending plan that would freeze taxes at 2011 levels without making cuts in …
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Alex Costello
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10/5/11
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Halfway through his first term as county executive, Ed Mangano is proposing yet another budget that takes a hatchet to spending.
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9/29/11
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Q. My house has been on the market for six years and I just can’t part with it for less than I paid. Under the circumstances, I’m thinking of having my daughter and son-in-law’s family take it over, and we would make just a small apartment for ourselves here. What are the ramifications of doing this, permit-wise? Does the county have to give us the permit and will our taxes change, up or down?
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Monte Leeper
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8/11/11
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Whether it’s Washington, D.C., or Albany, taxpayers are sending a message loud and clear. They want the cost of government reduced, and they want their taxes to go down.
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7/21/11
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This one was never in doubt. Legislation that will put a cap on property tax levies passed by a 57-to-5 margin in the State Senate before it made it through the Assembly and was signed into law by …
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By Fran Berkman and Lee Landor
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7/6/11
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed New York's first property tax cap in Lynbrook today, at the home of James and Janet Gannon.
“For decades, taxpayers across New York state have been burdened …
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By Mary Malloy and Brianna Isabel Barbieri
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6/30/11
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Long Island employers got a bit of good news earlier this month when the State Senate passed a bill to repeal the MTA payroll tax — shortly after the MTA terminated its contract to operate Long …
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By Lee Landor
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6/29/11
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Seventh-grade sports might have to be eliminated. The nine-period day might be reduced to eight. And teachers might have to be let go. After that, no one’s sure what might happen, but school districts will have to keep cutting.
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Scott Brinton
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6/2/11
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James Mulva, chief executive officer of the U.S.’s third-largest oil company, ConocoPhillips, fired off a news release one day before a May 12 congressional hearing to discuss –– not to decide –– whether Big Oil should pay its fair share of federal taxes. In it, Mulva had the audacity to state that charging oil companies more in taxes would be “un-American.”
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Scott Brinton
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5/19/11
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Following months of work, the West Hempstead Public Library and its Board of Trustees proposed a 2011-12 budget that would essentially require the average homeowner to pay an additional $12 dollars a …
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By Lee Landor
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5/11/11
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