ALBANY—Business Council President Daniel B. Walsh today praised
Assemblyman Ivan Lafayette, D-Queens, for introducing legislation that
would impose criminal penalties on anyone who solicits lawsuits at the
scene of an accident.
Assemblyman Lafayette's bill, A.2022, would create a Class A misdemeanor
for "unlawful solicitation of a tort victim
Prepared by the staff of The Business Council
January 29, 1999
Issue Areas (Staff Contacts):
OVERVIEW
Construction
Economic Development
Education & Job Training
Environment
Health
Labor & Welfare Reform
Taxation
Technology
Transportation
Workers' Compensation
Overview
Governor Pataki's 1999-2000 Executive Budget includes a number of major provisions that will further improve New York's business climate
ALBANY—Given New York State's historically high taxes, cutting
taxes means creating jobs. The proof lies in the tremendous gains our
economy has made in the last four years, as taxes have been reduced again
and again. Further tax cuts - such as those proposed by the Governor,
and by Senator Bruno - will mean still more new jobs for working New
Yorkers
Governor Pataki announced his proposed budget will include
more than $350 million in new business tax cuts, including
several of The Business Council's top priorities for tax
reform in the coming year.
"Our policies of cutting taxes, reforming workers' compensation
and eliminating unnecessary regulations have directly led
to the creation of more than 419,000 new, private-sector
jobs," the Governor said
For the second consecutive year, The Business Council has
helped New York's business community effectively reduce its
own taxes by pre-paying unemployment insurance (UI) taxes.
Because businesses pre-paid more than $62 million in UI
taxes in December, UI taxes on all employers in the state
will be reduced by some $210 million in 1999, said Business
Council President Daniel B
A representative group of The Business Council's Directors
discussed The Council's top legislative priorities with Governor
George Pataki at a meeting January 19.
Business Council President Daniel B. Walsh and Board members
briefed the Governor on The Council's top priorities for
1999: tax cuts, health care cost containment, tort reform,
and workforce development
STATE OF NEW YORK
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER
GEORGE E. PATAKI, GOVERNOR
Governor George E. Pataki today announced his 1999-2000 Executive Budget
will include a plan to reduce the State's income tax for nearly five
million taxpayers by $600 million, reducing the tax burden on a typical
middle-income family by about $150 per year by 2003
A new report on health-care taxes from The Business Council's
research affiliate has ignited a lively debate on the future
of those taxes, which raise $1.38 billion a year and are
due to expire this year.
Misguided Money,
a study released Nov
How advances in network computing can and should change
how government works will be the theme of a conference in
Albany Jan. 19 co-sponsored by IBM and The Business Council.
The symposium, which is entitled "Rethinking Government
in the Network Computing Age," will take place from 9 a
A key member of the Assembly leadership has endorsed The
Business Council's "Upstate Agenda for Growth"-and has said
the state must do even more to ensure that the upstate economy
reaches its potential.
Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, an Erie County Democrat who
chairs the Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Job
Creation, Commerce and Industry, said upstate needs "aggressive
action to energize our economy