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In advance of her upcoming 2025 State of the State Address onJan. 14, Gov.Kathy Hochulis promoting several initiatives intended to address the cost-of...

Local sales tax receipts continued to fluctuate in November, state officials said Tuesday. The Office of the State Comptroller reported that sales tax...

Progressives who argue that “the rich” should pay their “fair share” of income taxes are inadvertently arguing they should get a tax cut. The IRS rece...

OLEAN — “The hard part is over” in enacting a city hotel bed tax, city officials reported. On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill S6671, whic...

LITTLE VALLEY — Unanimously and without comment Tuesday, Cattaraugus County lawmakers approved a $293.7 million budget for 2025, up less than 1% from ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Some state tax incentive programs could be in peril next year as lawmakers consider slimming down underperforming initiatives to prepar...

Local sales taxes generally saw small declines in October, state officials reported. The Office of the State Comptroller reported that while 63% of co...

DEAR RUSTY: I served in the U.S. Army from January 1958 to Feb 1961. What increase should I receive for those years and who do I call and at what phon...

BRADFORD, Pa. — New construction on High Point Federal Credit Union’s new brach in Bradford at 1035 E. Main St. is taking shape. The branch is expecte...

ALLEGANY — The town of Allegany has unanimously passed its budget for 2025. The adopted budget keeps the town under the 2% tax cap limit set by New Yo...

DEAR RUSTY: The Social Security program is funded by employees and their employers. The federal government does not contribute to the program, right? ...

DEAR RUSTY: I am past my Social Security full retirement age, and I am still working. I am married and we file our income tax jointly. My husband is 6...

The State of New York has spent $40 million on its County-Wide Shared Service Initiative, which appears to exist for the explicit purpose of eliminati...

America’s 50 state governments will need an extra $811 billion to pay off their current debt, according to the annual “ State of the States ” report f...

ALBANY — New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul received a failing grade on fiscal restraint from a libertarian think-tank, which criticized her for ...

DEAR RUSTY: I just turned 69 years old in August and am still working full-time. I signed up for Medicare Part A but, it is my secondary insurance bec...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Social Security revealed plans for 2025 — including raising the amount of money that you can be taxed on each year. Average wages sub...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The developers of three projects worth over $12.5 million in the southeast corner of Cattaraugus County are seeking tax breaks. The Ca...