Sentences with phrase «percent sales tax extension»

Cahill set the stage last year, said his detractors, by holding up the 1 percent sales tax extension for two months, thus, again according to detractors, chief among them County Executive Mike Hein, costing the county some $ 5.2 million and the City of Kingston about $ 600,000 in revenue.

We're all familiar with the storied biannual clashes between Assemblyman Kevin Cahill and County Executive Mike Hein over the renewal of the 1990s - era «temporary» 1 percent sales tax extension.

Was Cahill being serious or just mischievous in suggesting last week that Hein's ability to balance the budget, cut the tax levy and fund millions in new programs could indicate the 1 percent sales tax extension might not be necessary?

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The most significant are a five year extension of 2 percent «Section 18 - a» assessments on utility energy sales, with a $ 500 million annual impact on business and residential ratepayers, and a five year extension of the $ 420 million per year «film production» tax credit.

Witness the Ulster County Legislature's $ 75,000 offering to the state legislature attendant on the latter returning to session within a month and passing the 1 percent Ulster County sales - tax extension.

Observers speculate that Cahill will include election costs in the next 1 percent extension of the sales tax, which comes up for negotiations in October.

Under the usual screaming headlines, the Daily Movement announced that Ways and Means Chairman Gerentine had sent a letter asking Assemblyman Kevin Cahill if he had any conditions for renewal of the county's 1 percent sales - tax extension.

Lorigo said he knew ahead of the vote that the additional 1.75 percent sales tax was going to pass, and wanted to send a message to the administration that it needs to be more careful about spending and taking the Legislature for granted by submitting something as important as the sales tax extension so late.

That hinges on the State Assembly passing the extension on one percent of the county's sales tax and that does not seem likely until next year.

In a scene that looked like the waiting room at a birthing center, 16 of 23 county legislators mingled and mumbled for over two hours last week while the fate of the 1 percent sales - tax extension was being determined behind closed doors.

One percent of the county's sales tax has been denied since the extension bill did not make it to the floor of the State Assembly last summer.

The deal puts a further onus on the city - and - town shares should the 1 percent extension to the three percent sales tax the county is allowed to levy, an extension that must be renewed by the state every two years, not get state approval.

Most of the extensions add a percentage point to the existing sales taxes collected by the counties, bringing the total to 4 percent.

Earlier this summer, Cahill forced the issue when he blocked a home rule request renewing the 1 percent extension of the sales tax unless county lawmakers and Hein committed legislatively, to an earlier proposal from Hein for the county to take over Safety Net gradually over the next three years.

(Ulster County is technically authorized to levy a 3 percent sales tax alongside the state's 4 percent; the 1 percent extension was first enacted in 1993 and reauthorized by the legislature every other year.)

Essex County is hopeful the state legislature passes the extension of the current four percent sales tax, a bill that has $ 7 million resting on it for the county revenues.