What's happening
This bill requires the Department of Taxation and Finance to annually post municipal sales tax collections for each municipality on its website.
Why it matters
Provides greater transparency. by requiring the state to make detailed, municipality-level sales tax collection data publicly available online, allowing residents, journalists, and policymakers to more easily track local government revenues.
Empowers local decision-making. by giving municipal officials and community advocates access to clearer data, which could help inform budget planning, fiscal oversight, and debates over local tax policy.
Facilitates accountability and comparison. by standardizing and centralizing annual sales tax data for every municipality, making it simpler to compare collections across counties and towns and spot trends or disparities that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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Who cares
Department of Taxation and Finance
The department would have to develop and operate an annual website posting system showing yearly sales tax collections for each municipality, organized by county.
County and municipal officials
Officials would gain a statewide source for reviewing sales tax collections in their municipalities and others.
Taxpayer advocates and local government reporters
The required postings would provide municipality-level sales tax figures for tracking and comparing local collections.
Headline styles
Post Local Sales Tax Online
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
757
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to municipal sales tax collections posted on the department of taxation and finance internet website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 171-bb to read as follows:
§ 171-bb. Statewide municipal taxes posting system. The department shall design, develop, compile, implement and operate an annual municipal sales tax posting system for the posting and display on the department's internet website of the amount of yearly sales tax collected in each municipality in the state pursuant to subpart B of part one of article twenty-nine of this chapter. Such information shall be posted on the department's internet website by county and include each municipality within such county.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01308-01-5
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