Sentences with phrase «cent sales tax went»

In 2008, the first year the measure took effect, 3.5 percent of a countywide half - cent sales tax went for senior and paratransit services.

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To raise revenues, Cuomo proposed requiring extending sales tax collections on online sales, imposing a surcharge on certain health insurers who received a windfall from federal tax cuts, tapping hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from lawsuit settlements and raising taxes «e-cigarettes» and taxing opioids (2 cents per milligram prescribed to go to anti-addiction programs).

While city school officials initially had indicated that they would go ahead with the quarter - cent sales - tax hike, which was expected to generate $ 21 million in its first year, they have put the plan on hold indefinitely, a district official said.

After moving dramatically to abolish property taxes as a source of funding for the schools, lawmakers last year decided to give voters a choice for replacing the lost revenues: either a two - cent sales - tax increase, to be considered in a March 15 referendum, or an income - tax hike, which will go into effect automatically if the sales - tax rise is rejected.