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Materials from TREND – Tax Reform Effort of Northern Dutchess

June 23, 2008. TREND NY Poll Says New Yorkers Prefer Circuit Breaker over Cap. The Tax Reform Effort of Northern Dutchess conducted a random automated phone survey of more than 500 registered voters, and found that New Yorkers prefer a property tax circuit breaker to a property tax cap two to one. March 6, 2008. Presentations from Changing the Property Tax System in New York, a conference sponsored by TREND in Hyde Park. Property Tax Caps: What We Can Learn From Other States by Robert [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:45-04:00June 23rd, 2008|Blog, City Budget, Tax & Budget|

Broad-based coalition unites to oppose arbitrary property tax cap

June 10, 2008. In a joint press release, representatives of a diverse group of organizations summarized the key shortcomings of property tax caps like the proposal advanced by Gov. David Paterson. The coalition members argued that New York needs property tax relief, but that an artificial cap would harm educational programs and doom efforts to close the achievement gap. Read the release >>

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:45-04:00June 10th, 2008|Blog, City Budget, Tax & Budget|

Testimony on Proposed Legislation Addressing Real Property Taxation Issues

June 2, 2008. Presented by FPI Executive Director Frank Mauro to the Senate Standing Committee on Local Government and Assembly Standing Committee on Real Property Taxation. The Middle Class STAR rebate program is better targeted than the original STAR program in that in takes income into consideration. However, Middle Class STAR is still not efficient and equitable property tax relief, since it does not take the size of a homeowner's property tax bill into consideration and it is still based on county and school district [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:45-04:00June 2nd, 2008|City Budget, Tax & Budget, Testimony|

2008 Conference on State Taxation

May 14, 2008. Senior economist Trudi Renwick participated in a panel discussion of property tax reform at the 2008 Conference on State Taxation sponsored by the Business Council of New York State and held in Saratoga Springs. Presentation >>

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:45-04:00May 14th, 2008|City Budget, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Tax & Budget|

The 2008-2009 Enacted Budget and the Property Tax Commission

May 5, 2008. Senior economist Trudi Renwick discussed property taxes and the enacted state budget in a presentation to the Long Island Federation of Labor.

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:46-04:00May 5th, 2008|City Budget, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget|

The economics of tax reform

May 1, 2008. Executive director Frank Mauro spoke at a meeting of the Ulster County Legislature's Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding and Tax Reform in New Paltz. News articles: Property tax burden takes center stage in speech by fiscal expert (May 3, Kingston Daily Freeman); The problem with property taxes discussed (May 2, Mid-Hudson News). Radio: Listen to MP3 (May 1, WAMC).

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:46-04:00May 1st, 2008|Blog, City Budget, Tax & Budget|

Meeting of the New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief – Syracuse

April 10, 2008. FPI executive director Frank Mauro spoke at the meeting of the New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief. Transcript (starting on page 7).

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:46-04:00April 10th, 2008|Blog, City Budget, Tax & Budget|

Over 100 Organizations Call for the Millionaires’ Tax

March 26, 2008. More than 100 organizations came together as the Better Choice Budget Campaign (of which FPI is a member) to urge leaders to listen to the public and support the millionaires' tax. Additional materials from the press conference: op ed on better choices by Ron Deutsch; Siena poll showing overwhelming public support for millionaires' tax (question 23); and fact sheet from New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness laying out short and long term solutions to burgeoning property taxes. Also, the new Tough Times radio [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:29:16-05:00March 26th, 2008|Blog, City Budget, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|

State must work to fix property tax problem

March 14, 2008. A letter to the editor of The Saratogian by FPI senior economist Trudi Renwick.

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:29:16-05:00March 14th, 2008|City Budget, Letters, Tax & Budget|

The Role of Property Taxes in New York’s State-Local Tax System

March 6, 2008. This presentation was given by Frank Mauro, executive director of FPI, at Changing the Property Tax System in New York, a conference sponsored by TREND, the Tax Reform Effort of Northern Dutchess. Other speakers included Robert McKeon of TREND and John Whiteley, Tri-County Committee for Property Tax Relief. Presentations: Mauro, McKeon, Whiteley.

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:46-04:00March 6th, 2008|City Budget, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Tax & Budget|

Setting the Context for Commission Deliberations

February 12, 2008. This presentation was prepared by Frank Mauro, executive director of FPI, for the February 12, 2008, meeting of the New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief. Presentation: Setting the Context for Commission Deliberations Expanded version of the presentation Excerpt from the meeting transcript (Mauro testimony)

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:47-04:00February 12th, 2008|City Budget, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Tax & Budget|

Property Taxes in New York: A State Problem Calling for a State Solution

February 11, 2008. Why are property taxes so high in New York? State fiscal policies have created the bind. This brief looks at four reforms that would help - and could be funded in a way that makes the overall tax system fairer. In the meantime, a middle class circuit breaker would ease the pressure on the property tax much more effectively that the Middle Class STAR program. On May 22, 2008, the brief was handed out at a public meeting in New City hosted [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:47-04:00February 11th, 2008|City Budget, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget|

Archive: Property tax policy in the news

From February 2008 through June 2011, In reverse chronological order: July 10, 2011. Massachusetts has spent 30 years living with a property-tax cap. By Cara Matthews, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Also in the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, the Journal News (Westchester and Rockland), and the Albany Times-Union. In Massachusetts, local governments adopt one budget that includes municipal and school spending. Voters make the decision on all overrides. Proposition 2½ is less restrictive than New York's new cap, said Frank Mauro, executive director of the labor-backed [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:47-04:00February 1st, 2008|City Budget, Tax & Budget|

New York State’s Economic and Budget Outlook for 2008-2009

January 15, 2008. Economic and fiscal context for the 2008-2009 Executive Budget, including an analysis of the property tax crisis and alternative property tax relief mechanisms. Briefing book >>

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:48-04:00January 15th, 2008|City Budget, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|