Freeport generates roughly $15.8 million a year in state sales taxes. The state collects the money, and then sends back roughly $6.2 million to Nassau County and the Town of Hempstead.The share of …
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By Nadya Nataly
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6/21/18
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Hempstead Town Receiver of Taxes Donald Clavin Jr. and Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana are launching a series of town-sponsored bilingual tax-reduction seminars for Spanish-speaking homeowners. Gil …
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By Nadya Nataly
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5/24/18
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Village of Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy is on a mission to get the village its fair share of state sales taxes, he says.
Freeport generates roughly $15.8 million a year in sales taxes. The state …
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By Scott Brinton and Nadya Nataly
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4/12/18
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Editor's note: Carrie Solages, a Democrat from Elmont, is a Nassau County legislator who represents the 3rd District.
The former county executive, Ed Mangano, overhauled the tax system that …
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By Carrie Solages
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3/22/18
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Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman announced Wednesday that his office is conducting a thorough audit of the Assessment Review Commission — the agency responsible for deciding tax-grievance …
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By Timothy Denton
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2/22/18
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The average refund for individual income taxpayers who received one for the fiscal year ending in September 2016 topped $3,000, according to the IRS.1 If you expect to receive a refund on your 2017 …
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Christopher Zarra, CFP®, ChFC®, CFS®
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2/19/18
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In my last column, “Buckle up, L.I., the GOP tax plan is headed our way” (Jan. 25-31), I promised to offer my suggestions this week on …
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2/18/18
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When County Legislature Debra Mulé got a phone call from Rockville Centre Mayor Francis Murrary, about a surcharge in the 2018 general tax bill, she says it prompter her to review her own tax bill. …
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By Nadya Nataly
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2/16/18
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As I wrote this column Saturday — the first anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration — the federal government was shut down. By Monday, it appeared poised to get back to work, as a compromise deal to end the legislative stalemate was in the works . . .
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1/25/18
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When Medicare and Medicaid were created in the 1960s, they received strong support in Congress from both parties. Then, in the 1990s, a bipartisan coalition added the Children’s Health Insurance Program . . .
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1/25/18
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