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Mid-Hudson News: House members urges governor to halt MTA payroll tax
January 27, 2010
WASHINGTON – The Hudson Valley Congressional delegation has secured $110 million in federal stimulus money for the MTA to maintain service in the Hudson Valley and prevent a tax increase.
The lawmakers, John Hall, Nita Lowey, Maurice Hinchey, Eliot Engel and Scott Murphy, all Democrats, Tuesday called on Governor David Paterson to introduce legislation to reduce the MTA payroll tax by $110,00 million and apply that reduction to payrolls in the Hudson Valley.
Hall said those small businesses are the region’s economic engine and should not be hit with that tax.
“Most of the Hudson Valley that are being hit, schools, non-profits, hospitals, are being hit by this so-called mobility tax, don’t really use the MTA services in anyway the intensity that the downstate counties and the five boroughs do,” he said.
The small businesses in the Mid-Hudson, unlike larger ones in New York City, benefit the least from the MTA service, the lawmakers said.
Mid-Hudson News: House members urges governor to halt MTA payroll tax
January 27, 2010
WASHINGTON – The Hudson Valley Congressional delegation has secured $110 million in federal stimulus money for the MTA to maintain service in the Hudson Valley and prevent a tax increase.
The lawmakers, John Hall, Nita Lowey, Maurice Hinchey, Eliot Engel and Scott Murphy, all Democrats, Tuesday called on Governor David Paterson to introduce legislation to reduce the MTA payroll tax by $110,00 million and apply that reduction to payrolls in the Hudson Valley.
Hall said those small businesses are the region’s economic engine and should not be hit with that tax.
“Most of the Hudson Valley that are being hit, schools, non-profits, hospitals, are being hit by this so-called mobility tax, don’t really use the MTA services in anyway the intensity that the downstate counties and the five boroughs do,” he said.
The small businesses in the Mid-Hudson, unlike larger ones in New York City, benefit the least from the MTA service, the lawmakers said.
