Sentences with phrase «local tax levies»

Furthermore, residents who purchase bonds issued by their states or localities may not be required to pay the corresponding state or local taxes levied against nonresidents.

That would bring the total local tax levy for high - income city residents to 13.618 percent, before federal taxes.

State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has announced local tax levies would be capped at 1.84 percent for the 2018 fiscal year.

In the meantime, many of the 280 communities that have passed local tax levies to increase funding for their schools will see a reduction of about $ 100 in the amount they receive from the state for each student served.

The Governor's plan calls for simplifying district finances, including collapsing 16 state categorical programs into block grants and consolidating more than a dozen local tax levies that support the schools.

Non residents who get into accidents or other situations often are obligated to pay for these services because they are financed through local tax levies, so in essence area residents are paying the expense of accidents caused by out of town motorists.

Greenport Mayor David Nyce has proposed a general fund budget of $ 2.9 million next year, increasing the local tax levy by 2.14 percent year - over-year.

To plug the hole, our board opted for a lose - lose proposition: Cut roughly 10 percent of the staff (i.e. twenty - two teachers) and increase the local tax levy by roughly 10 percent (more than double the increase on the ballot in surrounding districts and nearly three times what our state school - board association says is the average proposed increase across the state's 658 districts).

The question, recently put to a Florida school official trying to drum up support for a local tax levy, is one that has educators in a number of states scrambling to fight the public's impression that they are sitting on a jackpot of lottery cash.

How we got to 9.8 % is a sausage - making story for another day, but if there is ever a lose - lose, this is it: we're cutting 10 % of the staff and increasing the local tax levy 10 %.

What's not so good — and if there is a «burning issue» in my district, this is it — is the proposed 9.8 % local tax levy increase, more than double the increase on the ballot in surrounding districts and nearly three times what our state school board association says is the average proposed increase by the state's 658 districts.

Additional revenues approved by this process are funded exclusively by increasing the local tax levy.

Assessment A local tax levied against a property for a specific purpose, such as a sewer or street lights.