Siena Poll: On Tax Day 43% say they paid too much in taxes

According to a new Siena College poll released today – “With Tax Day looming, 43 percent of New York residents say they paid too much in taxes this year while 42 percent, virtually unchanged from last year, believe they paid the right amount, according to a new poll releas
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Investors give college towns high marks

Hotels in cities with a college or university—whether it be a major urban setting such as Atlanta or a more rural college town such as Chapel Hill, North Carolina—have become a hot commodity.
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New Yorkers getting a tax-break

Governor Cuomo announced a tax-break - consumers will no longer have to pay the four percent state portion of the sales tax on clothing and footwear purchases up to $110 per item. Also, the MTA payroll tax has been eliminated for taxpayers who own small business or make less than $50
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Wait, a $25 fee to file my taxes?

Jimmy Vielkind of The Times Union has a humorous post about the recently rolled back $25 fee to file taxes not filed electronically. Vielkind shares an email exchange with someone who wanted clarity on the rules for submitting tax returns:
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New York OKs expanding TIFs for infrastructure

Claude Solnik reports on the Long Island Business News - "Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York state Legislature leaders, as part of a $132.6 billion budget deal, agreed to create a new development tool that could jumpstart projects by providing financing for infrastructure.

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State budget bill voting begins

As expected, the New York State Senate and Assembly started taking up the remaining bills to close out the state’s budget this morning. It will take hours to pass the bills. The $132.5 billion spending plan will beat the budget deadline for the second year in a row.
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Record $540M jackpot sparks Mega Millions Mania

Did You Get a Ticket? From CBS news, a breakdown on the ticket-buying frenzy: Lottery agents in New York were selling 1.3 million Mega Millions tickets per hour Thursday. “Multiply that by 42 states, and get an idea of the frenzy over Friday night’s record $540 million Meg
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An alternative budget that ‘puts people first’

From the Legislative Gazette’s Adam Shanks:A coalition of advocacy groups, led by New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, has released a “CounterBudget” in response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Budget proposal — much of which was already agreed upon and passed e
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Governor Cuomo video message to voters

Governor Cuomo speaks to voters about passage of pension reform, redistricting and expansion of the DNA database. Watch live streaming video from newyorkstateofficeofthegovernor at livestream.com
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When it comes to business taxes, location… location… location…

New Study Has the Bottom Line on Tax Costs in All 50 States The Tax Foundation has created a measurement of the bottom-line tax liability a firm would face doing business in each of the fifty states. What that measurement shows is the wide disparity in the way businesses are taxed sta
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