Property Tax

Albany lawmakers closed their season yesterday with a wholly inadequate effort to shrink the state budget. And property tax relief - pushed so hard by Gov. David Paterson and Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi - was given just a cynical nod in the...

The fate of the Amendment 5 tax swap is in the hands of the Florida Supreme Court. The state's high court set arguments in the case for Sept. 8, after the 1st District Court of Appeal agreed Tuesday to forgo its review of a state judge's decision to...

The fate of the Amendment 5 tax swap is in the hands of the Florida Supreme Court. The First District Court of Appeal in the state capitol today agreed to forego its review of a state judge's decision to strip from the ballot the plan that would...

The New York Legislature agreed late Tuesday on a plan to cut state spending by about $1 billion over the next few years. They were expected to pass the legislation late Tuesday. Lawmakers hadn't finalized plans for cutting health care. The deal was...

A campaign by the New York State United Teachers and its allies, who oppose a school property tax cap, is filled with distortions and hardball political threats. Instead of a creative discussion on how to reduce New York's highest-in-the-nation school...

ALBANY - Amid the increasingly heated debate over how to rein in property taxes, the State Assembly could take up today a plan that provides political cover for members in tight re-election races but won't pass muster with the Senate or Gov. David A....

First, let me say this: Of course I have regrets. After all, the purchase of our family home in Hollywood with an adjustable-rate mega-jumbo mortgage closed a mere 119 days before Countrywide Financial Corp. announced that -- whoops! -- it had, uh, run...

If the $8 billion-a-year tax plan thrown out by a state judge stays off the November ballot, supporters of the so-called tax swap could lose a prime, rare opportunity to fundamentally change the way Floridians pay taxes. The reason: The proposal that...

A proposal that would cut property taxes substantially while triggering increases in other levies is off the Nov. 4 ballot -- for now. The high-stakes, time-crunched legal battle to determine whether the so-called tax swap is put before voters might head...

homeowners, business owners, renters -- is adjusting to a new reality: a reality of gasoline costs floating at $4 a gallon, higher grocery bills and a higher cost of doing business, as well as increases in all types of insurance. Then there is the...

A state judge's ruling striking the so-called tax swap from the Nov. 4 ballot is a beginning, rather than an end, to a high-stakes, time-crunched legal battle to determine whether the plan is put before voters. Hours after Leon County Circuit Judge...

It took a circuit court judge's ruling to give Florida a chance to come to its senses. Smart money says state leaders in the capital won't do it, even as the demand for government tax and spending reform grows. Maybe the Republicans in Tallahassee...