Sentences with phrase «city commuter tax»

He also was assailed for agreeing to legislation like ending the New York City commuter tax and weakening affordable housing regulations to keep suburban Democrats happy.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wants the New York State Legislature to revive the long - dead New York City commuter tax, WCBS 880's Paul Murnane reported on Tuesday.

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The Wi - Fi - equipped commuter shuttle buses offered up by tech giants such as Google, Yahoo, Apple and Facebook are now going to be taxed based on the number of stops they make in city bus zones.

Included was a proposal to re-establish the commuter tax to help the city raise revenue and pay for basic services, such as fire and police.

On the negative side, Silver let the commuter tax be killed, depriving the city of millions of dollars in annual income.

The tax, as currently constructed, levies $.34 on every $ 100 of payroll in New York City and the surrounding, commuter - heavy counties.

He said he supports bringing back the commuter tax on those who work in the city, but don't live here.

The speaker is also known for successfully pushing to repeal New York City's commuter tax and blocking two of Mayor Bloomberg's major proposals: his attempt to build a stadium on Manhattan's West Side and his plan to charge drivers $ 8 for entering a congestion zone in Manhattan.

Jackson pointed to Espaillat's vote to repeal the commuter tax in 1999 — which has deprived the city of billions of dollars in revenues — as one major reason he should get the boot.

Bill deBlasio: If we organize a campaign so that the public of this city ensures that every candidate for Governor, for Assembly, for State Senate, this is a litmus test in their races, then we can get a commuter tax.

«Getting permission from the state for a local income tax about one percent that would be paid by city residents, and also commuters coming into the city, that would be used for both the city side and school district side,» Humphrey said.

As proposed by Mr. Stringer, the tax, which would be levied on the income of commuters who work in, but do not live in, New York City, would generate $ 725 million annually, his office estimated.

The Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, will call on Tuesday for restoring New York City's long - abandoned suburban commuter tax to help stabilize the finances of the region's creaky mass transit network.

The 1999 suspension of the commuter tax - a small fee charged to nonresidents who work here and use city services - denies the city more than $ 750 million every year.

Weprin sponsored a bill to levy a 1 percent commuter tax on those who work in the city but live outside it.

According to the council, restoring the tax would help the city pay for the cost of police, fire, transportation and other services used by city residents and commuters who come into the city every day.

By «these bills,» Russianoff was referring to a Martins - and Zeldin - sponsored proposal that would, «exempt all counties, towns, cities, villages and other political subdivisions outside of New York city from paying the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax,» and another one, sponsored by Martin, that would exempt libraries.

In 1999, he spearheaded the drive to repeal New York City's commuter tax, which levied nonresidents at the same rate as people who lived in the city — a move that infuriated then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani because of the loss of reveCity's commuter tax, which levied nonresidents at the same rate as people who lived in the city — a move that infuriated then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani because of the loss of revecity — a move that infuriated then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani because of the loss of revenue.

The members of the two organizations that plotted that Town Hall stunt are aggressively uninterested in other things, too: the MTA payroll tax on New York City - commuter counties, «illegals» using area emergency rooms, questions about the moral rightness of Peter King's American - Muslim - radicalization hearings in Congress, and generally footing the bill for other people's stuff.

Hawkins» answers to these issues include youth councilors on the streets instead of more police officer, and creation of a commuter tax to help dig the city out of debt.

Dinkins, who hired de Blasio as an aide in 1989, suggested fighting instead for a commuter tax, which would apply to people who work in the city, but reside elsewhere.

Tuesday's remarks came during during a wide - ranging speech on the future of public transportation in the city, in which the presumptive mayoral candidate also called for a new «X» subway line connecting Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx, an AirTrain to LaGuardia and the reenactment of the «commuter tax» on non-New Yorkers.

The new federal tax bill awaiting President Donald Trump's signature spares some concerns for cities and historic preservation groups, but it takes away a positive tool for governments in refinancing debt and removes tax benefits from commuters.

Some upstate counties and cities have rates as low as 7 percent combined while New York City has a combined sales tax rate of 8.875 percent, which includes the 4 percent state sales tax, three - eighths percent Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District sales tax and 4.5 percent city sales City has a combined sales tax rate of 8.875 percent, which includes the 4 percent state sales tax, three - eighths percent Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District sales tax and 4.5 percent city sales city sales tax.

I would take it a step further and seek ways to tax vehicle commuters from Maryland and Virginia for their carbon impacts on our city.

In an area unsuitable for farming much more than potatoes and stones, and leached by the wretched Mall in the Middle of Nowhere, which was to say just beyond the property tax limits, Backton had set its fiscal sights on becoming a commuter dormitory for the big city, a mere two hours away by a not very difficult combination of highways.