Sentences with phrase «to stay under the tax cap»

Last year he offered tax rebate checks contingent on municipalities staying under the tax cap and making moves to share services or consolidate.

Schuler said all budgets that eventually passed in Niagara County last year stayed under the tax cap, with Niagara Wheatfield failing on its initial effort to exceed the cap last year.

But reluctance to pierce the cap was further fueled by Governor Cuomo's state's «tax freeze» gimmick, which sent rebates to homeowners whose elected officials stayed under the tax cap (while, perversely, encouraging them to increase taxes up to the cap because the rebates grew proportionately).

Towns that stayed under the tax cap in the past year are afforded higher limits the following year.

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.

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She has made the tough choices to make Suffolk County government more efficient, which saves Suffolk taxpayers $ 100 million per year in reduced costs and allows the county to stay under the tax cap.

«In past years we stayed under the tax cap when our expenses were rising and we probably should have gone up to the tax cap and exceeded it (then) in order to balance our budget,» said Dyster.

The county would absorb the remaining $ 3.6 million this year in order to stay under the tax cap.