Albany Times-Union: States Release Plans to Shift from Income to Payroll Taxes

But the concept has sparked questions from both sides of the political spectrum.

“You are making the state code increasingly complicated and for what?” said Steve Wamhoff, a senior tax policy fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington D.C. progressive-leaning group that looks at tax issues such as fairness.

Wamhoff notes that much of the effort focuses on protecting upper-income New Yorkers – that is those who are paying more than $10,000 in state or local property taxes. He believes the state should consider additional taxes on the wealthy – an opinion shared by many New York progressives but one that Cuomo hasn’t embraced. Read more

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