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This tax, known popularly as the "mobility tax", or the "MTA tax", is intended to provide funds for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which transports many of the region's commuters. [8] Philadelphia has a 3.924% wage tax on residents and a 3.495% tax on non-residents for wages earned in the city as of August 2013. [9]
The cash-strapped MTA will get $1.1 billion in the budget deal — a bailout that likely will forestall fare hikes. The deal proposes to do this by raising the state's payroll mobility tax for New ...
Chief among them is raising the state’s payroll mobility tax from 0.34 percent to 0.5 percent, Hochul said. Doing so will yield $1 billion for the MTA, she said.
“Remember, payroll mobility taxes are actually taxes on the workers. It's not a corporate tax, it's a tax on the workers,” said Kruger, adding “I believe the governor did misjudge this.”
On February 1, 2023, as part of her Executive Budget proposal to the New York State Legislature, Governor Kathy Hochul proposed raising the MTA payroll tax, a move projected to increase revenue by $800 million, and also giving the MTA some of the money from casinos expected at present to be licensed soon for business in Manhattan. [155]
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it is going to fight a Wednesday state court decision that ruled the enacted to bolster the agency's budget is unconstitutional.
In July 2010, Mangano announced that Nassau County had filed a lawsuit against the State of New York and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) challenging the legality of the 0.34% Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax, a payroll tax levied on employers in the 12-county area served by the MTA.
Businesses hit with payroll tax to support MTA; Rockland gets less in transportation service than it pays for. William Demarest , Patch Staff Posted Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:45 am ET | Updated Tue ...