taxes

Republican Bruce Blakeman accused Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday of dodging questions about new taxes, telling supporters in Middle Village, Queens, that a second Hochul term would bring higher income and property taxes, a wealth tax and a “death tax,” as the two candidates traded tax attacks in the final days of the race for […]

New York City's plan to raise more than $500 million annually through a new tax on luxury second homes is facing questions about whether the policy will generate the revenue officials expect. More than half of the exemption applications filed by property owners have been approved, raising concerns about the size of the tax base […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Earlier in the month, President Donald Trump warned voters that democratic socialists — extreme, crazed, lunatics, he called them — were threatening to transform America into “a communist country.” This week, a smiling Trump patted on the shoulder one of the nation's best known democratic socialists, shook his hand, and said he was […]