Losing and Winning with Tax Reform

My informal and unscientific polling leads me to conclude that Scarsdale residents believe that our village, county and school property taxes should be deductible from our state and federal income taxes. We as a group feel that the same income should not be taxed multiple times, and that it is at the local level where our tax payments benefit us most directly (and where we have the most control over taxing and spending). And we generally feel that the belt-tightening imposed on us by Albany and Washington is not accompanied by commensurate belt-tightening from those geographies…Read More