And any change to the city tax code ultimately must be approved by the state Legislature and signed by Mr. Cuomo.
The New York City tax abatement in the Brooklyn example is currently available for the first four years of a system's life.
With help from Edward Miguel, an economist at Berkeley, and from the city tax department, we matched the data with the size of each UN mission.
In Manhattan, there are only three homes under 12 feet wide, with the slimmest at nine-and-a-half-feet on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, according to city tax records.
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The Big Apple is not so generous with its income taxes however, imposing a maximum state and city tax of 8.8% and 3.8%, respectively, on residents of Manhattan.
Residents of New York City are currently subject to a maximum state rate of 8.82% and an additional city tax of 3.82%, for a combined tax rate exceeding 12.5%.
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After that, assuming city tax revenues have grown 3% a year in the interim, Philadelphia would have to spend 19% of total tax revenue just to pay its retired workers.
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In a more technical vein, I came across this summary of tax law wrinkles for business owners from Carolyn Linkov, a principal in the New York City tax office of ParenteBeard.
Germany and France said a City tax will be part of a new European treaty in an aggressive move that will force David Cameron to concede defeat or allow the eurozone to advance without Britain.
Ms. Quinn's plan would, through state legislation, create a new city tax credit for affordable housing developments and require developers who receive the subsidy to renew the below-market rate aspects of their buildings every 30 years, at the city's request.
The winding streets of Paris' northeast have been the home to bars, restaurants and guinguettes - open air dancehalls - since the early 19th Century, when Belleville and the neighbouring village of Menilmontant sat just outside the city tax limits, and drew the working classes for some cut-price going hard before going home to their workshops and factories.
The city's tax rate (which includes a 3% city income tax) is 6.5 times the state average.
But Williams brought accountability to a city where tax officials had literally left returns strewn across the basement of a city building.
The top rate for the city income tax, for instance, was knocked down by 21%.
Instead of the city using tax dollars to build a network, Earthlink put up its own capital.
No huge rallies in any, much less every, major city on Tax Day.
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Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire, has voiced opposition to hiking the city income tax.
City council tax bills will rise by just under 2%, and while frozen in the county next year, will go up by 1.5% in the following three years.
Infrastructure Secretary Alex Neil confirmed to the chamber that there was no chance of the city receiving Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) funding for any scheme that did not involve the transformation of Union Terrace Gardens.
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For example, Ohio, Texas, New York South Carolina and Washington tax computing services directly, while Utah and the City of Chicago tax the cloud only when deals involve the transfer of control or possession of software as well as computing services, according to national tax-services company WTAS. At least two states, Vermont and Idaho, have recently passed rules to explicitly exempt cloud-based services from state sales tax.
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All that's needed is support from the city and some tax breaks.
But those were lost in a flurry of foreclosures beginning in the mid-2000s and a loss of 70 percent of the city's tax base.
At the heart of the industry in Hong Kong is the not-for-profit Jockey Club, which last year contributed about 7% of the city's tax revenue and is one of its largest employers.
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New York's sales tax is 4 percent and all its counties and New York City add an additional tax ranging from 3 percent to near 5 percent.
Still, the put strategy could make a lot of sense if you are now living in high-tax New York City and plan to be retired to low-tax Miami before the put expires.
The budget will see the city's council tax precept rise 1.95% following three years of freezes.
Mr. Miller offers an example based on a New York City resident and current tax rates.
After bare-knuckled bargaining with the city, he won tax breaks to refurbish a rundown hotel near Grand Central Terminal.
The EA exec notes that no other California city levies a similar tax.
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For instance, officials in Wuhan, an industrial city, have given tax breaks to anybody who buys cars made in the local car plant.
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