Ulster County Legislature to State: Standardize the Sales Tax Rates
Posted April 15, 2014
While a Federal standardized sales tax is being debated, in an effort to address a growing internet market, New York State continues its bi-annual authority to administratively approve requests for increased local sales tax to pay for the rising cost of health care and private sector pensions. This seemingly mundane act of allowing counties, cities, and school districts to continue decade long practices of extending beyond the 3% local tax by an additional 1%, is made by fifty-two count
