Sentences with phrase «city get the tax break»

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But two of the city's hottest technology start - ups, Twitter and Zynga, are threatening to leave San Francisco unless they get a break from a city payroll tax that could, given the estimated multibillion - dollar valuations of the two companies, amount to tens of millions of dollars.

Alicia Glen, the city's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said Amazon would probably get hardly any tax breaks if it chose to locate its second headquarters in Midtown or Lower Manhattan, the city's two traditional business centers.

By opening up bids for its second headquarters to cities and municipalities across the country, Amazon is countering that narrative: For only a few billion dollars in tax breaks, the lucky winner would get 50,000 jobs.

Fresh - faced City Council Speaker Corey Johnson wants middle - class homeowners in the city to get a tax brCity Council Speaker Corey Johnson wants middle - class homeowners in the city to get a tax brcity to get a tax break.

If Perez Williams is elected mayor, she can't let the county dictate tax breaks for a city that needs all the money it can get.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

Lavine said if elected, she would return donations she's collected from developers or anyone else seeking to do business with or get a tax break from the city.

That is, Republicans may be hoping that without the break on federal taxes I was getting for my high property, city and state taxes, I may vote to reduce taxes — and thus spending — at all levels of government.

Thomas focused the majority of his economic action plan around getting the city's Industrial Development Agency (IDA) back on track after New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli slammed the beleaguered agency for not keeping records for the monies and tax breaks it gives to development projects.

«It is not acceptable for developers to get a billion - dollar - a-year tax break while paying workers low wages and creating little to no affordable housing,» said Paul Fernandes, executive director of the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation, an organization of unions and contractors.

One of Mayor Bloomberg's top staffers owns stock in a company whose subsidiary is getting city funding and tax breaks to build a Brooklyn arena for the NBA's Nets — a revelation that's raising eyebrows among opponents of the controversial project.

Fresh - faced City Council Speaker Corey Johnson wants middle - class homeowners in the city to get a tax brCity Council Speaker Corey Johnson wants middle - class homeowners in the city to get a tax brcity to get a tax break.

City officials fear that the costs of the program could skyrocket further if condominium projects are allowed to obtain 421 - a tax breaks, something both Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo oppose, though some state senators have suggested allowing them to get the tax breaks.

A Queens Assemblyman and City Council hopeful who simultaneously claimed primary residences at two different addresses got a federally backed mortgage at one and a city tax break at the other, records sCity Council hopeful who simultaneously claimed primary residences at two different addresses got a federally backed mortgage at one and a city tax break at the other, records scity tax break at the other, records show.