Sentences with phrase «property tax increases permanent»

Flanagan, in a lengthy statement, reiterated his support for making the state's cap on local property tax increases permanent as well as the passage of an education investment tax credit along with a lifting of the cap on charter schools.

Cuomo and Senate Republicans have been aligned on a number of key issues, including keeping a cap on local property tax increases permanent, as well as a tax credit for donations to public schools and private school scholarship programs.

A range of business groups on Tuesday backed Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan's push to make the state's cap on annual property tax increases permanent.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«This overall situation once again underscores the need to work even harder at the state level to provide new and ongoing tax relief to middle class families, starting with balancing our budget without any tax increases, lowering onerous energy taxes for seniors and other homeowners, and making the successful two percent property tax cap permanent,» Flanagan said.

The two - year proposed freeze on property taxes unveiled by Cuomo's tax reduction task force this week would require municipalities to stay within their mandated 2 - percent spending increase, and in the second year the benefit would apply only to municipalities demonstrating «meaningful, concrete steps» toward permanent savings through consolidations and mergers.

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.

Senate Republicans will introduce a one - house budget bill that rejects Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for property tax relief, but also makes the current cap on levy increases permanent.

And the group wants to see the state's cap on property tax increases — limited to 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower — made permanent.

When the report by the Empire Center was issued, Cuomo issued a statement saying, in part, that the «tax cap has successfully broken the cycle of skyrocketing property tax increases,» and that the report illustrates why the cap should become permanent.

Three bills that failed last year would have increased charter schools» cut of the Permanent School Fund, exempted charter schools that lease from paying property taxes and provided per - student facilities funding.