Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the FY 2017 Executive Budget – Taxes
February 2, 2016. Executive Director Ron Deutsch testified before the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees on the Governor’s FY 2017 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan.
Income inequality has increased in New York during the recovery with income for the 1 percent growing faster than the average income for everyone else. New York’s combined state and local tax structure is regressive and several rounds of substantial multi-year tax cuts in the past three years have done nothing, on net, to make the tax structure less unfair. When the current “millionaires’ tax” expires at the end of 2017, it should be permanently replaced with the 1% Plan for New York Tax Fairness that will add four new, high-end tax brackets and continue the middle class tax cuts the governor initiated in 2012.
Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the FY 2017 Executive Budget – Taxes
February 2, 2016. Executive Director Ron Deutsch testified before the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees on the Governor’s FY 2017 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan.
Income inequality has increased in New York during the recovery with income for the 1 percent growing faster than the average income for everyone else. New York’s combined state and local tax structure is regressive and several rounds of substantial multi-year tax cuts in the past three years have done nothing, on net, to make the tax structure less unfair. When the current “millionaires’ tax” expires at the end of 2017, it should be permanently replaced with the 1% Plan for New York Tax Fairness that will add four new, high-end tax brackets and continue the middle class tax cuts the governor initiated in 2012.