BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services This is about the time of year that I see investors breaking the New Year’s resolutions they formulated in September or October and committed to with solemnity in December. These are the worst kind of broken promises because, ultimately, the person you are hurting most is […]
BY PUBLISHER EMERITUS ARMAND MIELE This is an excerpt from my book, Born Minus: From Shoeshine Boy to News Publisher, An Italian-American Journey. It’s similar to musings I’ve published several times over the years, saying that today’s rising property taxes are especially unfair to senior homeowners. The only thing I want to add today is that […]
Just in Time to Help Rockland County with these New Taxes Rockland County Times Staff Editorial Did you know, Rockland County, that in 1986 our state legislators did something very useful for us here in the Hudson Valley and passed a law that said any of the outlying counties which wished to withdraw from the […]
Editor, As a North Rockland resident, this past year I have seen my school property taxes increase nearly 8 percent, my town taxes increase 2.9 percent and my county property taxes will increase by more than 30 percent, in addition to several other county taxes that add up to the equivalent of another 30 percent. […]
Lower, middle and upper-class will receive tax reductions, multi-millionaires will receive tax hike similar to current “millionaire’s tax” On Tuesday Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced they have reached a proposed three-way agreement on legislative and executive proposals to create jobs and cut taxes for middle class New […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Are you paying enough in county taxes? Sales tax? Property tax? Mortgage tax? Do you think the county would charge you enough tax if you sold your house? Hopefully you feel like you are underpaying, because Rockland is about to be walloped by a flurry of new taxes. Rockland County government will […]