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Rockland Backs Plan In State Senate To Kill MTA Payroll Tax - New City, NY - Rockland estimates the new tax costs county governments and business an extra $18M, without any transit services.
Number of vehicles. 2,429 commuter rail cars. 6,418 subway cars. 61 SIR cars. 5,725 buses [1] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.
Rockland wants tax scrapped, better service from MTA and $220M in damages. William Demarest , Patch Staff Posted Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:33 am ET | Updated Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:35 am ET
Politics & Government State Senate OKs Plan To Scrap MTA Payroll Tax Legislation would phase out tax that has been called a "job killer" for Rockland and Westchester.
Local leaders and business people have railed against tax since it was adopted in 2009. Brendan J. O'Reilly , Neighbor Posted Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:20 pm ET | Updated Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:09 pm ET
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. 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.
Partial Rollback Of The MTA Payroll Tax A Beginning - New City, NY - County legislators say Rocklanders have paid $18 million yearly
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.