He contrasted the mayor's desire to let the millionaire's
tax sunset this year — which he said would blow a $ 5 billion hole in the state budget — with the mayor's insistence in his State of the City address that the city needed to be able to reduce pension benefits and lay off «more expensive» senior teachers to cut costs.
Not exact matches
While the
tax incentive
sunset in 2014, it could still be available to businesses making purchases in 2015, but Congress and the White House need to act to extend the credit before the end of the
year.
The bill also allows expensing to expire after five
years, imposes several new
taxes eight
years in the future, and includes other
sunsets and sunrises.
The
tax credit will be phased out over the next
year since Tesla will have sold over 200,000 electric vehicles in the US triggering a
sunset of the
tax credit.
The cap on property
taxes was extended for four
years, a full
year before its
sunset.
Skelos conceded that high - income earners — couples who make $ 2 million a
year and individuals who make $ 1 million — will see less of a
tax reduction under this new structure than they would have had the so - called millioniare's
tax been allowed to
sunset at the end of the month as scheduled.
This strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary (pardon the pun, please) pass when it comes to the millionaire's
tax, since both Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Cuomo have refused to move off their opposition to extending it past its
sunset date this
year.
Silver agreed with Strong Economy for All Coaliton head Mike Kink's assessment that up to 85 percent of the revenue currently being generated by the so - called millionaire's
tax (set to
sunset at the end of this
year) is actually coming from people with assets of $ 1 million or more.
He also discussed the supposed «link» between a property
tax cap and rent control, insisting he's willing to do the former without the latter, and refused to say whether or not the state can afford to let the so - called millionaire's
tax sunset on schedule at the end of this
year.
· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two
years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales
tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to
sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property
tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.
Initially, the
tax cut was supposed to cost $ 250 million in M.T.A. - dedicated revenue, to be offset by the state out of general funds, and it was to
sunset in three
years.
For more than a
year, the 421a abatement that saves developers big in
taxes and creates some affordable housing has been unavailable for new development projects, following a
sunset of the previous law in January of 2016.
During a Q - and - A with reporters outside his office yesterday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo reiterated his opposition to continuing the millionaire's
tax past its
sunset date at the end of the
year, which is something members of the labor community and select Assembly Democrats (albeit not all of them) have been pushing.
Advocates have noted there's still time to reinstate the
tax before it
sunsets at the end of this
year.
Sampson seemed to be pitching Cuomo on reconsidering his opposition to extending the so - called «millionaire's
tax,» which is set to
sunset at the end of the
year, to reduce some of his deep cuts to Medicaid and education aid.
That percentage would drop under the Assembly Democrats plan to boost the threshold to $ 1 million, making the
tax actually live up to its name, and only for one
year past the
sunset date.
Sixty - nine of the 99 - member Assembly Democratic conference signed a recent letter to Speaker Sheldon Silver re-stating education as a «priority» and expressing support for continuation of the so - called millionaire's
tax past its
sunset date at the end of the
year.
They support (55 - 42) the idea of letting the millionaire's
tax continue past its
sunset date at the end of this
year.
Cuomo has made it clear on numerous occasions that he opposes continuing the temporary three -
year personal income
tax increase on wealthy New Yorkers that is scheduled to
sunset at the end of 2011.
Cuomo wants to extend the existing rates on the wealthy that are due to
sunset at the end of the calendar
year, insisting it is key to paying for middle - class
tax cuts approved in the previous budget
year.
The current
tax cap legislation will
sunset next
year.
According to state law, the hotel
tax has a three -
year sunset clause attached to it, meaning that it must be renewed by the state in fiscal
year of 2018.
The governor continues to argue that letting the
tax sunset at the end of the
year was in keeping with a campaign vow to not raise
taxes.
Asked about the 2 percent property
tax cap due to
sunset this
year, Assemblyman Kevin Cahill offered this insider's assessment.
The first is a parcel
tax that will extend the estimated $ 10 million in annual funding from a 2008 parcel
tax beyond the end of the 2013 - 14 school
year when the current
tax sunsets.
As with most
tax incentives, the credits will
sunset after a few
years and they may not be available by the time a commercial plug - in hybrid is available to consumers.