Cuomo - additional ways to increase taxes for free stuff

[UpStateEd]

Cuomo's plan for lotto winners is just a diversion from his real goal of taxing millionaires more and taxing all online transactions...tax - spend - tax more - spend more !

Now he is going to rename the failed Start Up NY program so it can continue to fail under a new name, then raise taxes again.

Cuomo budget depletes lotto winnings for people with low-income

 

[Madmallard]

And there's more taxes & fees.

Cuomo looks to enforce tax laws on out-of-state Web sales | New York Post

New Yorkers are going to get nickeled-and-dimed in the new state budget, with added fees on everything from prepaid cellphones to titles for motor vehicles.

The biggest hit would be a state sales tax on Web purchases that are currently exempt.

If the Legislature goes along, Cuomo intends to force “market place providers” that peddle products for others on the Internet to collect the state sales tax on items sold to New Yorkers.

Amazon, which has a presence in the state, already does so.

But other Web platforms, where just about anyone can sell stuff, don’t.

State budget analysts figure they can reel in an extra $136 million a year once the tax extension kicks in.

“Mom and pop” sites with revenues under $100 million a year would be exempt, a clear sign the state is going after the largest sellers on the Web.

Officials said expanding the sales tax would “result in a level playing field for New York ‘Main Street’ retailers that compete with out-of-state sellers.”

The Retail Council of New York State has long advocated sales tax parity between online retailers and brick-and-mortar stores.

In other hits on New Yorkers’ wallets:

• Three million motorists face higher fees from the Department of Motor Vehicles. New auto title certificates would jump from $50 to $75, yielding $75 million in new revenue.

Duplicate titles would double in cost from $20 to $40.

There were 294,000 duplicates issued by the DMV last year.

Cuomo’s office defended the hikes, saying the fees haven’t been raised in a decade.

• An estimated 11 million New Yorkers would have to pay $5 for a “REAL ID” card the federal government requires for air travel for those without driver’s licenses.
• The $1.20 monthly fee added to cellphone bills for E-911 would be extended to pre-paid phones as well. Those priced at less than $30 would only pay 60 cents a month.
• Real-estate brokers would pay a new $5 fee to cover the cost of real estate license ID card/application. The state currently eats the cost.
• Users of vaping products and hookah pens would get slapped with an excise tax of 10 cents per milliliter of the nicotine-laced fluid.
• Cigar taxes would be raised to 45 cents from 38 cents per stogie, to generate an extra $23 million a year.

State Budget Office spokesman Morris Peters defended the news fees.

“This budget caps spending under 2 percent for the seventh year in a row and includes a tax cut that will save 6 million middle-class taxpayers an average of $250 this year,” he said.

“What you’re talking about are actions that either close unintended loopholes, continue this state’s successful smoking cessation efforts, or makes sure the cost of activities are borne by the people who use them instead of taxpayers writ large.”

 

[Magnus]

This looks similar to what happened to Venezuela. Next thing you know cuomo will be telling us to conserve energy and that we have to work several days out of the year at a farm.

 

[UpStateEd]

Scumbag says DMV fess haven't been raised in a decade? The title fee went from $20 to $50 just a few years ago.

 

[Cooolone]

The State has no authority to tax interstate commerce if the business does not reside within the State. Companies like Amazon have "voluntarily" submitted to the will of the State to collect taxes. It is up to the purchaser then to pay any duties or taxes and we all know how that works. Fuck NY... Who the hell does this guy think he is? Congress has continually shelved a federal requirement (tax) on internet commerce knowing fully what the effect would have.

Go ahead douchebag, kill the State just another inch or two... Simply amazing! What is his plan when nobody pays? Open boxing at shipping facilities to check for contraband? Or do like his dad wanted, follow cars and tree record plates at out of State shopping centers and malls and then Notify plate owner that they are responsible to pay NY taxes on their purchases they imported into the State... Lmfao

 

[ProgSpear]

There's a reason "dropping a cuomo" has entered the lexicon.

 

[redtail]

Eabod cumbucket

 

[Deplorable Me]

I expect that agencies that have the ability to levy penalties and tickets will be responsible for securing their own funding by becoming heavy handed in their enforcement.

 

[UpStateEd]

New York Motto

If it's fun it's illegal, if it's legal it's taxed.

 

[Phauxtoe]

How is Cuomo not breaking laws ?

 

[Criticalt]

One small fix......
Get rid of welfare.

 

[Jmac00]

AFA the lottery winning crap goes. Easy to bypass. If a welfare recipient wins a couple million the first thing they should do (or anyone for that matter) is go to a lawyer. Have the winnings put in a blind Trust, not the person's name. Have the trust receive the winnings.

AFA the Cigar tax goes, I'll have them shipped to my In-laws in another state and then I'll pay the shipping charges to me. I'll save myself about $11 dollars on a box of 25 cigars.

Everytime King cuomo does something stupid, there is a way around it, someone will find away......even if it means moving

 

[Saltwater60]

Come on guys he's got to get the money from somewhere. He's got to get more votes to stay in office.

He's insane. Absolutely lost it. I hope he loses next election. I don't think we could do worse.

 

[Jmac00]

Come on guys he's got to get the money from somewhere. He's got to get more votes to stay in office.

He's insane. Absolutely lost it. I hope he loses next election. I don't think we could do worse.

Is New York shitty going to fall into the ocean? that would be most helpful