Sentences with phrase «on property tax increases»

Do you support the state's 2 percent cap on property tax increases?

More than three quarters of the survey respondents plan on property tax increases next year, the highest amount in five years.

Always plan on your property taxes increasing until and unless you receive written notice otherwise from your state.

The budgets were approved amid a record - low cap on property tax increases.

Cuomo was also able to convince the state Legislature to approved a 2 percent limit on property tax increases for local governments and school districts.

The tax cap talk at the joint legislative hearing on the state budget and its impact on local governments was dovetailed by the GOP - led Senate approving, once again, a cap on property tax increases for New York City.

Cuomo has been pushing for a «freeze» on property tax increases through capping increases and sharing services on the local level.

The Republican - controlled New York State Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would set a cap of 2 percent on property tax increases across New York City's five boroughs.

Lead sponsor of the Property Tax Stabilization Fund to serve as a dedicated rainy day fund to hold the line on property tax increases.

New York has had a cap on property tax increases since 2011, but continues to have persisntly high property taxes compared to the rest of the country.

But the governor has also passed a cap on property tax increases as well as a suite of business tax cuts, along with embracing charter schools — all policies that have led to activists within the WFP to challenge him.

The state's cap on property tax increases doesn't expire until next year, but some lawmakers at the Capitol are already looking to make the measure first passed in 2011 a permanent one.

While the tax cap was promoted as a 2 % limit on property tax increases per year, the School Boards, and the State Comptroller's office, calculates that with exemptions for growing pension payments and school construction projects that are exempt from the cap, the actual increase permitted is 3 %.

School officials held to a less than 2 - percent cap on property tax increases imposed by Albany have said another year of losing aid to the gap elimination adjustment would have forced further state and program cuts.

In it, the union calls on the Legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett to put more money into public schools and remove the limitations on property tax increases required by the state law known as Act 1.

In his first two years as governor, Cuomo proposed and won a 2 percent limit on property tax increases and a new, less generous pension tier for state workers.

The cap on property tax increases limits growth in levies to 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.

Indeed, Cuomo could be a victim of his early and highly consequential successes — the history making legalization of same - sex marriage, a cap on property tax increases, a sweeping gun control law, an ongoing effort to restrain Medicaid growth — from his first term.

The program — which Cuomo first billed as a «freeze» on tax increases — is designed to push local governments to keeping under the state's cap on property tax increases and find ways to share services.

Republican Sen. Bill Larkin in a letter to the editor released on Thursday called for a permanent extension of the state's cap on property tax increases.

At the time, Senate Republicans grilled him over whether New York City should be subject to a cap on property tax increases.

Flanagan renewed traditional Republican calls for the budget, including a permanent cap on property tax increases and a cap on spending increases at 2 percent enshrined in state law.

The New York State United Teachers union has released a letter from the Education Conference Board written to state lawmakers urging them to boost education spending by $ 2.2 billion as the state's cap on property tax increase is due to be virtually flat this year.

The number of school districts planning to submit budgets that override the state's cap on property tax increases has grown to 36, according to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office on Thursday in a report.

She said she would amend the state's 2 percent cap on property tax increases — «if a locality itself wants to raise taxes on itself to pay for education, I think we shouldn't make that so onerous» — and backed the Assembly's plan to raise taxes on New Yorkers reporting more than $ 5 million in income.

In recent years, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has sought to reduce overall pension contribution rates for local governments and taxing districts, which are squeezed amid a cap on property tax increases.

The framework includes a four - year extension for rent control as well as the state's cap on property tax increases, which will include changes that fall short of what local governments and school districts had wanted.

In the Assembly, she has cosponsored a bill that would add New York City to the statewide cap on property tax increases, something de Blasio has opposed.

He was elected in 2010 as a «new Democrat» who married centrist economic policies — a cap on property tax increases, business tax cuts, a reduction in pension benefits for new public employees — with liberal social policies like strict gun control and support for same - sex marriage.

High teacher salaries and the state's cap on property tax increases is putting a financial squeeze on Long Island school districts.

By an overwhelming 82 - 13 percent margin, voters support a cap on property tax increases, with strong support from every group.

More school districts across the state continue to eye overriding the state's cap on property tax increases.

The tentative framework, in addition to rent control's extension, included a $ 1.3 billion property tax rebate program, a 12 - month extension of mayoral control for New York City schools and a re-approval of the state's cap on property tax increases.

The agreement reached on Tuesday provides for a four - year extension of rent control for New York City as well as an extension of the state's cap on property tax increases, albeit with some adjustments to allow for growth in PILOTs and BOCES capital expenses.

Senate Republicans still must work with Assembly Democrats on the issue of rent control, given that it is ultimately tied to the state's cap on property tax increases.

O'Brien, a Rochester - area Democrat, meanwhile, is creating a ballot line centered around upstate taxpayers in order to highlight his support for the state's cap on property tax increases.

Some state lawmakers could begin pushing for changes to the state's cap on property tax increases, which is due to expire next June, 2016.

Nearly 600 local governments and taxing entities — 593 in total — around the state have proposed budgets that would stay within the state's cap on property tax increases, according to numbers compiled by the state comptroller's office.

State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed on modest changes to the state's cap on property tax increases, with two exemptions in a deal that will be carried out administratively.

A state Supreme Court judge on Monday tossed a legal challenge from the New York State United Teachers union to the state's cap on property tax increases and a «freeze» on tax levies.

A poll of school board members around the state found 38 percent would consider seeking overrides of the state's cap on property tax increases, the New York State School Boards Association found.

The New York State School Boards Association is celebrating the passage of the overwhelming majority of school budgets across the state yesterday, even as local districts contend for the first time with a limit on property tax increases.

School districts in the 2016 - 17 budget year will have a record - low cap on property tax increases, a report from the New York State Association of School Business Officials found.

A trio of local government organizations have written to legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking them to address what they consider to be shortcomings in the state's cap on property tax increases.

But perhaps most controversially, the school advocates are reiterating their call to change how the state's limit on property tax increases is calculated.

But the battle over aid has become increasingly pitched in recent years after the enactment of the state's cap on property tax increases, which has been the primary revenue source for school districts.

A 13 - page report from a commission led by former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall and former Gov. George Pataki found $ 2 billion worth of recommended tax cuts spread out through 2018, and also provides a carrot - and - stick approach for getting local governments to live within the state's cap on property tax increases and consolidate services.

Those projections, co-chair Neil Murphy said, estimated each municipality's future expenses based on spending for the past decade, and factored in the state's 2 percent cap on property tax increases.

Most school districts hope to increase their tax levies at or just below the 2 % cap on property tax increases that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law in 2011.

District officials have said they want to keep within the state's 2 percent baseline cap on property tax increases and should reach a final decision on that issue by Feb. 14.