A report released by the Empire Center for Public Policy ranking the highest 20 and lowest 20 effective tax rates for regions across New York found nine Cayuga County municipalities have the lowest effective tax rates in the central New York region. Read More
Property owners in the village of Lyons, Wayne County, paid the highest tax rate in the Finger Lakes region in 2010, more than 50 percent above the regional median, the Empire Center for Public Policy reported Thursday. The Empire Center ranked th Read More
Two Chautauqua County cities are ranked in the top tier for the highest tax rates in the state. The Empire Center ranked effective tax rates for 2010 in every region of the state, along with a ranking of effective tax rates in cities. The study fo Read More
The Capital Region has the second-lowest median property taxes in New York state, according to a new study out Thursday. Area property owners pay a median tax rate of $21.97 per $1,000 of property value, according to the Empire Center for Public P Read More
Five days before school elections statewide, a conservative policy group unveiled an Internet-based tool for residents to compare total school district, municipal and county tax burdens across the state. "There are literally thousands of different Read More
A report Thursday from the fiscally conservative Empire Center shows that New York's highest property-tax rates are in cities and rural areas with low property values, and the lowest are in resort communities and wealthy areas with high property valu Read More
Fasten your seatbelts, Chautauqua County Republicans. You're about to be taken for a ride. Crossover SUVs are currently in vogue, but in our neck of the woods so are "crossover plums." Lest you think I'm describing some hybrid fruit, rest assured Read More
At the same time that Mayor Bloomberg is pressing the state for urgent pension reforms, four of the city's five pension systems are hiding basic data about their members from the public. The bizarre situation began when a government watchdog, the Read More