Sentences with phrase «get under this tax cap»
«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.
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«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).