Thanking
The Business Council "for being such an effective advocate
for the interests of our business community," Governor Pataki
this week repeated his pledge that the state budget would
address a top Council priority: preserving already enacted
tax cuts scheduled to take effect this year
The
Business Council is urging lawmakers to extend, with key improvements,
the law that governs how the state considers proposals to
site new electricity-generating plants.
The
current law, Article X of the state Public Service Law, is
due to expire at the end of December
ALBANYNew
York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will speak at The Business Council's
annual State Chamber Dinner Monday, May 13 at the Empire State Plaza Convention
Center in Albany.
There will be
a press table at the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at approximately
6:45 p
Arthur
Roth, commissioner of the state Department of Taxation and
Finance, will keynote The Council's annual Conference on State
Taxation, which is set for June 18-20 in Saratoga Springs.
Roth
will speak during a dinner that is set for Wednesday, June
19
Editor's note: For a PDF file of tables showing proposed tax and spending
increases in individual school districts in New York State, see www.ppinys.org/taxes/school02/2002schooltax2.PDF.
To see the same tables in HTML format, visit www.ppinys.org/taxes/school02/counties_a-f.htm.
ALBANYSchool
districts across New York State would spend an average of $12,888 per student
in 2002-03, an increase of 3
How
the terrorism of Sept. 11 has affected employers will be one
focus of The Business Council's annual seminar series on labor
and employment law at four locations around the state in June.
These
one-day seminars are scheduled for Buffalo (June 10), Waterloo
(June 11), Albany (June 12), and Poughkeepsie (June 13)
A
federal tax reform that gives businesses a bonus depreciation
allowance for certain assets will also save New York businesses
on their state taxes because state policy is linked with the
federal code and will not "decouple," Governor Pataki
has told central New York manufacturers
IBM
was ranked Top Corporate Citizen of the year by Business Ethics
magazine's "Corporate Social Responsibility Report."
The
publication's annual listing of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens,
which was released April 24, is based on a quantitative measure
of 650 public companies' corporate service to seven stakeholder
groups, including employees, customers, the community, stockholders,
the environment, and overseas stakeholders
New
York State's out-of-control lawsuit industry has grown in
recent years, putting the state "on a collision course
with a crisis over liability," Business Council President
Daniel B. Walsh warned today.
At
a Capitol press conference Walsh renewed The Council's calls
for sweeping tort reform to emphasize appropriate compensation
for victims, not the interest of trial lawyers
New
York's annual cleanup expenditures far exceed that of most
states, and New York's existing hazardous waste-related fees
greatly exceed the superfund-related business fees imposed
in virtually every other state, a state-by-state analysis
environmental spending shows