Last year he offered tax rebate checks contingent on municipalities staying under the tax cap and making moves to share services or consolidate. (syracuse.com)
Schuler said all budgets that eventually passed in Niagara County last year stayed under the tax cap, with Niagara Wheatfield failing on its initial effort to exceed the cap last year. (niagarachamber.org)
But reluctance to pierce the cap was further fueled by Governor Cuomo's state's «tax freeze» gimmick, which sent rebates to homeowners whose elected officials stayed under the tax cap (while, perversely, encouraging them to increase taxes up to the cap because the rebates grew proportionately). (empirecenter.org)