Yonkers Tribune

Peekskill Joins Yonkers, Greenburgh for Tax Assessment Feasibility. By ABBY LUBY

June 28, 2012 UPDATE: Yonkers City Hall Continues to Take an Official Stand While Acceptin the Grant Funding and Conducting This Study. This Cirumstance has Been Hushed by Yonkers City Hall for Over 3 Weeks.

PEEKSKILL, NY and YONKERS, NY --  The City of Peekskill will join the City of Yonkers and the Town of Greenburgh to ascertain if reassessing properties for multiple municipalities will be cost effective.

Increase in the Rate of the Yonkers Resident Income Tax Surcharge

Yonkers, NY -- An acid-tongued blogger advised us they had this late afternnon visited the New York State Tax Website and noticed that the publication on March 21, 2011, of the withholding instructions for the increased Yonkers Withholding Tax. The acid-tongued blogger states, "I knew from last year's budget that this should have gone into effect as of Jan 1st. I guess the state screwed up and are now just getting around to sending out the revised withholding instructions. They do say that people will not be penalized for underpayment of estimated taxes however for 2011. They really need to get rid of this regressive tax. The other towns and localities, other than New York City and White Plains don't have this tax scheme. You should post this for your readers on Yonkers Tribune. People will start seeing less in there paychecks in May.

http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/memos/income/m11_2i.pdf." 

We've done just that and thank you for advising our readers of the importance and relevance of this information.