The vagaries of the calendar have extended this year's income-tax filing deadlines to midnight tomorrow, April 17. New Yorkers, especially, can use the extra time to cope with their state's increasingly complex and confusing tax code. Read More
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To promote greater public scrutiny of tax-funded expenditures, the Empire Center for Public Policy has assembled a list of pork-barrel "member items" found in the 2007-08 budget bills passed by the Legislature. Read More
The expansion of property tax rebates in the new state budget has once again raised the question of whether the rebate is effectively taxable on federal returns. The answer is yes -- but only for those New Yorkers who claim itemized deductions for Read More
State Funds spending would rise by about 8.6 percent under the $121 billion budget enacted by the Legislature on March 31 and April 1, according to preliminary estimates. As shown below, this would rank among the top 10 budget increases in this categ Read More
New York’s new $121 billion budget spends at a rate of more than $331 million per day, according to an analysis released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More
Governor Spitzer's first Executive Budget called for targeted spending restraint in one major program area -- Medicaid -- along with significantly higher expenditures in many other areas, especially education. It also featured an expansion of state-s Read More
As the $121 billion state budget was heading toward passage late last week, some observers jumped to the conclusion that Gov. Spitzer had conceded too much, too soon in his first negotiations with the Legislature. Read More
Personal income in New York State increased faster than the national average last year -- and Wall Street accounted for a disproportionate share of the growth, according to . Finance-sector earnings, which represent 14 percent of all personal inc Read More