New
York's per-capita property tax burden is more than $1,300
for every man, woman, and child in New York, the nation's
fourth-heaviest property tax burden and 50 percent above average,
according to the third briefing paper in The Public Policy
Institute's Tax
Watch '04 series
The Chamber
Alliance of New York State has elected five new board members and reelected
four others.
The new board
members elected include:
John
D'Ambrosio, president, Orange County Chamber.
Kevin
Keeley, president and CEO, Chemung County Chamber
New York is losing economic ground to states that tax their
citizens and businesses less, according to a new paper in
The Public Policy Institute's Tax
Watch '04 series.
Between 1992 and 2002, private-sector employment grew 21.1
percent nationwide, the paper said
ALBANYNew York's business community thinks that The Business Council,
the state's leading advocate for business, has been too weak in criticizing
state government actions that worsen New York's business climate, a new
Business Council survey shows.
"New York's
businesses want The Business Council to be sharper and blunter in criticizing
bad policy decisions," said Heidi Nauleau, chairman of the Aarque Companies
of Jamestown, Chautauqua County, and chairman of The Business Council
ALBANYA huge majority of New York State employers say the state's
high taxes and high costs of health insurance, workers' compensation,
and electricity are hurting their ability to do business, a new Business
Council survey of New York employers shows.
"This message from employers is an alarm that Albany cannot ignore,"
said Heidi Nauleau, chairman of the Aarque Companies of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, and chairman of The Business Council
New York’s Labor Neutrality Act is part of a systematic, state-by-state
attempt by unions to restrict employers’ free-speech rights and
is preempted by the federal National Labor Relations Act, The Business
Council has told a federal district court considering a challenge to the
law
ALBANYNew York State's taxes are the nation's highest, and this economic disadvantage drives jobs to other states and hurts New York's employers and working families, according to the first in a new series of papers to be published by The Public Policy Institute of New York State.
Only elected officials' commitment to restrain government spending can reduce this burden on New Yorkers, the report added
New York State is home to the highest local taxes in the
nation, more than 70 percent above the national average, according
to a new study by the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC).
In fact, New York's overall tax burden, and its local taxes
in particular, dwarf even those in comparably large and urbanized
competitor states with similar economic profiles and histories,
the study shows
As a new
poll showed that New Yorkers continue to prefer lower taxes and reduced
government spending to higher taxes, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno
reaffirmed his commitment to rejecting tax increases in 2004.
"We are not
raising taxes, taxes are going to be reduced, we're going to stay with
that,"Bruno (R-Rensselaer County) told New York Post reporter Fred
Dicker on his WROW radio program Nov
New
York's taxes and debt burden are too high, New York's attorney
general told business leaders last month.
The
Business Review, a business weekly newspaper circulating
in the Capital Region, quoted Eliot Spitzer as saying, "We
[in state government] have not shown the fiscal restraint
that you in the private sector are obligated to show