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Viewpoint: Legislature must repeal jobless tax, and quickly April 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The following editorial appeared in the New York Daily News: Making the rich pay more in taxes is a lot different than making the jobless pay taxes, but New York wrongly made no distinction as it simultaneously hiked taxes on the wealthy by $4.3 billion and slapped folks out of work with $1.4 billion in taxes on their unemployment benefits. That unfair jobless tax must be repealed. Almost four million New Yorkers lost their jobs and collected unemployment compensation last year. Congress wisely exe...

PUBLISHED 9:26 PM ET Apr. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 9:26 PM EDT Apr. 16, 2021 SHARE Taxes are due in a month, but what does this mean for New Yorkers who were unemployed last year due to the pandemic? When the federal government passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in March, Congress included an exemption so at least a portion of unemployment benefits from 2020 will not be federally taxed. People whose adjusted gross income was less than $150,000 can exclude up to $10,200 of unemployment benefits from taxes in 2020. However, State Budget...

Turbulence Ahead: Are the skies less friendly to Observant Jews? Illustrations by Esti Friedman The thin piece of colored cloth that accompanies virtually every COVID regulation on the ground has created some atmospheric pressure in the formerly friendly skies as well. Flight attendant crews, once limited to reminding passengers to fasten seatbelts and pouring out frothy cups of warm Diet Coke, have now been handed their roughest job yet — ensuring that every passenger, every second of the time, has every part of their lower face covered. Given that this directive has led to an increasing n...

jwhittaker@post-journal.com A recent proposal in the state Senate would help drivers’ wallets — and likely cost the state millions of dollars a year. State Sen. Pam Helming, R-Geneva, has introduced S.5993, eliminate the requirement that motor vehicle and trailer registrations be renewed every two years. Helming proposes instead registering a vehicle when it is purchased and keeping that registration in effect until the vehicle’s title is transferred to a new owner, at which point the new owner would pay for a new registration. Helming also proposes that any existing motor vehicle regis...

Assemblywoman seeks to wipe out unemployment debt for those paid in error FacebookTwitterEmail Visitors to the Department of Labor are turned away at the door by personnel due to closures over coronavirus concerns in New York in March 2020. The surge in weekly applications for benefits in the opening weeks of the pandemic far exceeded the previous record set in 1982. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) ALBANY — Thousands of New Yorkers who have been told to repay unemployment or federal pandemic assistance benefits that they received improperly would see those debts wip...