Arthur
Roth, commissioner of the state Department of Taxation and
Finance, will keynote The Council's annual Conference on State
Taxation, which is set for June 18-20 in Saratoga Springs.
Roth
will speak during a dinner that is set for Wednesday, June
19
Editor's note: For a PDF file of tables showing proposed tax and spending
increases in individual school districts in New York State, see www.ppinys.org/taxes/school02/2002schooltax2.PDF.
To see the same tables in HTML format, visit www.ppinys.org/taxes/school02/counties_a-f.htm.
ALBANYSchool
districts across New York State would spend an average of $12,888 per student
in 2002-03, an increase of 3
How
the terrorism of Sept. 11 has affected employers will be one
focus of The Business Council's annual seminar series on labor
and employment law at four locations around the state in June.
These
one-day seminars are scheduled for Buffalo (June 10), Waterloo
(June 11), Albany (June 12), and Poughkeepsie (June 13)
A
federal tax reform that gives businesses a bonus depreciation
allowance for certain assets will also save New York businesses
on their state taxes because state policy is linked with the
federal code and will not "decouple," Governor Pataki
has told central New York manufacturers
IBM
was ranked Top Corporate Citizen of the year by Business Ethics
magazine's "Corporate Social Responsibility Report."
The
publication's annual listing of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens,
which was released April 24, is based on a quantitative measure
of 650 public companies' corporate service to seven stakeholder
groups, including employees, customers, the community, stockholders,
the environment, and overseas stakeholders
New
York State's out-of-control lawsuit industry has grown in
recent years, putting the state "on a collision course
with a crisis over liability," Business Council President
Daniel B. Walsh warned today.
At
a Capitol press conference Walsh renewed The Council's calls
for sweeping tort reform to emphasize appropriate compensation
for victims, not the interest of trial lawyers
New
York's annual cleanup expenditures far exceed that of most
states, and New York's existing hazardous waste-related fees
greatly exceed the superfund-related business fees imposed
in virtually every other state, a state-by-state analysis
environmental spending shows
Saying
that economic development is the Senate's top budget priority,
the Senate Majority today proposed a $400 million expansion
of the state's Empire Zone program.
The
investment would create 40 new Empire Zones, meaning that
every county in the state would have a zone, the Senate said
in a release
New
York State should make the investment tax credit (ITC) for its
securities industry permanent to help this industry recover
from job losses in 2001, The Business Council has told lawmakers.
New
York's ITC for the financial sector is due to expire in September
2003
The
Business Council has asked a federal appeals court to let
The Council join litigation between an environmental advocacy
group and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) related
to how New York regulates air emissions from large industrial
and utility sources