«We've met our goal... to
get under the tax cap, which basically was forced on us by the state of New York,» Chautauqua County Legislator Larry Barmore, a Republican, told the Jamestown Post-Journal last week.
«There's absolutely no way that we could
get under this tax cap without a bunch of smoke and mirrors and some painful cuts to public safety and to the maintenance of county facilities.»
«Why not, instead of looking at gimmicks to
get under the tax cap, why not cut taxes?»
«For the second year in a row, the administration has resorted to gimmickry to
get under the tax cap.»
Not exact matches
It stays
under the 2 percent
cap, so homeowners will
get a full rebate through Governor Cuomo's
tax cap initiative.
Members of the Town Board had publicly signaled their reluctance to raise
taxes past the
tax levy
cap, which would not only add more than $ 100 to the average
tax bill but also cancel a
tax credit residents
get when their municipalities remain
under the
cap.
At last count, New York State public schools» unfunded mandates numbered more than 150 — 150 unfunded mandates that cost schools money in time and resources — yet most of us
get our budgets passed while staying
under our
tax caps.
«Has anybody ever spoken about capital projects and how we have infrastructure that desperately needs to be maintained and replaced and we're not
getting any help for that and it's not exempt
under the [state]
tax cap at all?»
Town Supervisor, Alex Gromack, has presented a preliminary 2015 Budget with a 1.1 % increase in
taxes and while this is
under the State mandated
cap of 1.56 %, it requires an infusion of $ 0.5 million from the Reserve Fund to
get there.
Three years later, districts are
getting close to returning to those 2010 totals
under Christie's latest budget, but the financial wounds were deep and with a 2 percent
tax cap in place since then, few would say they have healed.
Since the amount of damages paid by a city or county will be paid by
tax dollars, government entities
get special consideration
under the law (meaning their liability is
capped).