Sentences with phrase «tax on commuters»

Instituting yet another tax on commuters can not be the solution for the MTA's budget woes.»

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The Wi - Fi - equipped commuter shuttle buses offered up by tech giants such as Google, Yahoo, Apple and Facebook are now going to be taxed based on the number of stops they make in city bus zones.

Other more narrow provisions include tax breaks for film and theater producers, NASCAR race track owners, manufacturers of electric motorcycles, commuters who use public transportation and teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies.

It's another form of a commuter tax and will place an unfair burden on middle - class Long Islanders who are already struggling to make ends meet.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who in the past has called congestion pricing initiatives a «regressive tax» on commuters from the outer boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, was more sanguine about the new approach.

On the negative side, Silver let the commuter tax be killed, depriving the city of millions of dollars in annual income.

In a push to eliminate what some drivers call a commuter tax on local residents, Rep. Brian Higgins is leading a fight to eliminate a 15 - cent Thruway toll just outside of Buffalo.

The tax, as currently constructed, levies $.34 on every $ 100 of payroll in New York City and the surrounding, commuter - heavy counties.

He said he supports bringing back the commuter tax on those who work in the city, but don't live here.

The speaker is also known for successfully pushing to repeal New York City's commuter tax and blocking two of Mayor Bloomberg's major proposals: his attempt to build a stadium on Manhattan's West Side and his plan to charge drivers $ 8 for entering a congestion zone in Manhattan.

In addition to adding a new payroll tax on every business, non-profit group, and municipality in Westchester County, the Oppenheimer plan raises fares for commuters by as much as 9.4 percent in January depending on their route.

«The obvious solution is to make the MTA run more efficiently, not to add new taxes on struggling employers and hike fares for commuters,» said Cohen.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wants the New York State Legislature to revive the long - dead New York City commuter tax, WCBS 880's Paul Murnane reported on Tuesday.

By Sean Ryan Planners of the Kenosha - Racine - Milwaukee commuter rail Monday gave up on waiting for state approval for transit taxes and chose to apply for federal planning money.

Diamondstone is a long - time community activist who has highlighted Connor's role in the repeal of the commuter tax and Connor's loss of his Minority Leader position to David Paterson on a vote of Democratic Senators.

Mr. Stringer's plan earned plaudits on Monday from transit advocates like Gene Russianoff, who described a new commuter tax as «the holy grail on the revenue side.»

As proposed by Mr. Stringer, the tax, which would be levied on the income of commuters who work in, but do not live in, New York City, would generate $ 725 million annually, his office estimated.

The Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, will call on Tuesday for restoring New York City's long - abandoned suburban commuter tax to help stabilize the finances of the region's creaky mass transit network.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday morning that he'll freeze tolls for all travelers on the New York State Thruway until 2020, will eliminate tolls for all agricultural traffic, and will give frequent commercial and commuter thruway travelers a tax credit that cuts their tolls in half.

Weprin sponsored a bill to levy a 1 percent commuter tax on those who work in the city but live outside it.

That cut, some jobs programs, reductions in the commuter and manufacturing taxes, and flood relief will be funded by $ 2 billion from a tax increase on the wealthiest New Yorkers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday morning that wants to freeze tolls for all travelers on the New York State Thruway until 2020, eliminate tolls for all agricultural traffic, and will give commercial and commuter thruway travelers a tax credit that cuts their tolls in half.

The members of the two organizations that plotted that Town Hall stunt are aggressively uninterested in other things, too: the MTA payroll tax on New York City - commuter counties, «illegals» using area emergency rooms, questions about the moral rightness of Peter King's American - Muslim - radicalization hearings in Congress, and generally footing the bill for other people's stuff.

Hawkins» answers to these issues include youth councilors on the streets instead of more police officer, and creation of a commuter tax to help dig the city out of debt.

With the Thruway dependent on tolls for maintenance money, state officials would have to raise taxes or tolls to make up for the loss of local commuters» tolls, he said.

Tuesday's remarks came during during a wide - ranging speech on the future of public transportation in the city, in which the presumptive mayoral candidate also called for a new «X» subway line connecting Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx, an AirTrain to LaGuardia and the reenactment of the «commuter tax» on non-New Yorkers.

New York State Supreme Court Judge Bruce Cozzens Jr. of Nassau County ruled that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Commuter Tax was unconstitutional on the grounds that the law is «a special law, which does not serve substantial state interest».

I spent $ 150 / month this year on qualifying commuter expenses (monthly train pass), but I wasn't aware of the commuter tax benefit that was available via the employer.

A commuter tax, in contrast, would discriminate based on origin or vehicle registration, or both.

I would take it a step further and seek ways to tax vehicle commuters from Maryland and Virginia for their carbon impacts on our city.

In an area unsuitable for farming much more than potatoes and stones, and leached by the wretched Mall in the Middle of Nowhere, which was to say just beyond the property tax limits, Backton had set its fiscal sights on becoming a commuter dormitory for the big city, a mere two hours away by a not very difficult combination of highways.

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