New York's combined state and local sales tax rates range from
7 percent to 9.5 percent, among the highest rates in the nation,
Comptroller Alan Hevesi's office found in a new report on local
government sales tax.
"Sales tax rates in New York State are much higher than the
national average," Hevesi said
The Business Council has launched a new Web-based electronic-advocacy
campaign to show lawmakers the strong statewide opposition to numerous
health insurance mandate proposals circulating in Albany.
“These bills do nothing to help the real problem—the
overall cost of health insurance,” the introduction says
New Yorkers' spending on public schools is second-highest in the
country, according to new statistics published by the U.S. Census
Bureau.
As of 2003-04, New York schools spent an average of $12,930 per
pupil. That was 56 percent above the national average of $8,287,
and virtually tied with New Jersey, which spent $12,981
Honorable Sheldon E. Silver
Speaker of the Assembly
State Capitol
Albany, New York 12248
Dear Speaker Silver:
Please don’t tell me this is the best Albany can do.
At your insistence, and that of the Democratic majority of the Assembly, the budget the Legislature is preparing to enact will do little, if anything, to create jobs and build prosperity in our state
ALBANY—The budget that the Legislature is preparing to enact does
little, if anything, to create jobs and build prosperity across New York
State, Business Council President and CEO Daniel B. Walsh told Assembly
Speaker Sheldon Silver in a March 29 letter.
“Please don’t tell me this is the best Albany can do,”
Walsh said in his letter, which criticized the state Assembly majority
and its Upstate members for their role in crafting a budget that significantly
increases spending and rejects broad-based business tax-cut proposals
advanced by Governor Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno
New York State must contain spending, reduce taxes, and trim other
infamously high business costs in to help the state's small businesses
survive and prosper, two top candidates for the Republican nomination
for governor told small business leaders at The Business Council's
annual Small Business Day Tuesday
Respondents to new Business Council survey also say other high costs,
especially electricity, workers' comp, and health insurance, must be reduced
ALBANY—New York State employers overwhelmingly agree that New York's taxes undermine their ability to compete and prosper here, a new Business Council survey of employers shows
The Business Council of New York State has become a partner
of World Community Grid, which makes spare computer processing
power available for important research projects. Joining the
IBM Corporation and a group of more than 140 companies, associations,
foundations and academic institutions, the Council will encourage
its members and staff to contribute their idle PC time to assist
humanitarian research by joining World Community Grid at www
New York State is a net beneficiary of globalization and free trade,
a new report by the Organization for International Investment (OFII)
shows.
“U.S. subsidiaries in New York have consistently supported
a significant number of jobs in the state,” the OFFI says
on its Web site
New York's annual budget growth would be limited under a constitutional
amendment proposed by state Senator Raymond Meier (R-Oneida County)
and Assemblyman Robin Schimminger (D-Erie County).
"The amendment would encourage fiscal discipline, make New
York more business-friendly, and hold the line on increases in taxes
and fees," a joint press release from the legislators' offices
said