“Given the existing value gap outside the city (e.g. there are no subways and few MTA-operated buses) and the very fact that businesses in the city are the primary business beneficiaries of the system – riders take the MTA to get to work in New York City; riders generally do not take the MTA to get to work outside New York City – exempting non-New York City from the increase associated with this already-unjust tax is the appropriate response…”
Attached to this message is a letter addressed to Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, urging for an exemption of non-New York City counties from the proposed MTA Payroll Mobility Tax increase. The letter was issued by Senator Skoufis and a group of Senate colleagues from both parties.