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State Budget
State Budget Breakdown
New York NOW from WMHT
April 04, 2020
David Friedfel from CBC breaks down the final spending plan and what it means for New Yorkers.
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Taxes
The New York City Property Tax
Problems, Inequities, and Potential Reforms
September 13, 2018
NYC Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform is charged with recommending reforms to make the NYC property tax fairer, simpler, and more transparent. CBC, the Regional Plan Association, and NYU Wagner convened a panel to discuss the current property tax system and the reforms that should be pursued.
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Taxes
New York Crafts Loophole to Protect Property Tax Deductions. But the I.R.S. Could Close It.
The New York Times
April 01, 2018
Tax experts said two plans Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pushed for in the budget face certain challenges. One, which in effect converts local property taxes into charitable contributions, will most likely be questioned by the Internal Revenue Service. And the other — a complicated option to convert the state income tax to a payroll tax — may prove difficult to sell to businesses and employees. That plan would lower the gross salary for workers but seek to keep their net pay equal to what it was before the federal cap went into effect.Carol Kellermann, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a fiscal watchdog group, said the plans are worth trying.
“A lot of people are criticizing the provisions, saying they won’t work,” Ms. Kellermann said. “It’s worth trying. There’s no downside to creating the vehicles to try these out.”
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CBC News
NYS Budget Director Robert Mujica (2018)
Annual Budget Briefing
February 15, 2018
NYS Budget Director Robert Mujica presents the annual New York State Executive Budget Briefing to CBC.
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City Budget
Budget Concerns
Inside City Hall
February 04, 2018
Citizens Budget Commission President Carol Kellerman sat down with Errol Louis to share some of her concerns over Mayor de Blasio’s proposed budget.
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Taxes
How Bad Is It? Implications of the Federal Tax Law for NY
Special Half-Day Conference
January 24, 2018
The federal tax overhaul passed last month may have enormous impacts in New York. What can we expect and what are the best responses?
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Taxes
The Nelson Report: CBC’s Maria Doulis on NYC’s fiscal issues
July 10, 2017
New York State and local tax deductions, New York City’s $85 billion fiscal plan for 2018, and the inequity of New York City’s real estate property tax system.
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Taxes
NYC property taxes favor rich and white homeowners, lawsuit claims
April 24, 2017
A coalition called Tax Equity Now NY, which includes the NAACP, the Black Institute, several landlords and homeowners, has teamed up with lawyers from the firm Latham & Watkins, including former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippmann, to file a class-action suit this week charging that the DNA of the city’s property tax system is racially biased and favors the affluent over the working- and middle-class.
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Taxes
NYS Exposed: Why Did the State Change the STAR Program?
WHEC News 10 NBC
October 20, 2016
New homeowners are running into problems with the state's STAR Program. As part of this year's budget, the tax break for homeowners turned into a rebate check. The problem? The state shorted hundreds of homeowners.
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Transportation
Taxi Tax Shrinks: MTA’s bottom line cut as taxi ridership plunges
NY1
November 23, 2015
Fifty cents goes to the MTA every times you ride a yellow or green taxi, but with taxi ridership shrinking, so does the MTA's bottom line.
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Transportation
Citizens Budget Commission Lays Out Ways to Tax For-Hire Car
NY1
August 26, 2015
Thanks to the surge of car services like uber, fewer and fewer people are taking yellow cabs—and it's just not cabbies who are feeling the pinch. The decline has real implications for the city's transit system, which received fifty cents for every cab ride.
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City Budget
Tax Revenue Panel
The Most Important Economic and Fiscal Decisions Facing the Next Mayor
December 06, 2013
This panel discusses options to reform and increase the property tax; and the impact of tax levels on residential and business location decisions.
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State Budget
State’s 2014 Budget Already Being Scrutinized
TWC News
April 11, 2013
It has only been two weeks since the state budget was passed, but already some potential sticking points in next year's budget talks are emerging.
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State Budget
Local Taxes in New York State
Easing the Burden
December 06, 2007
Presentation from a stakeholder conference on setting budget reform priorities in 2007.