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Rep Joe Crowley Applauds Legislation to Lower Electricity Prices for New York Consumers and Businesses

Crowley Praises Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg for Efforts to Prevent Summer Rate Hikes

Today, Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), a chief deputy whip in the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives, applauded Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, and the New York State Legislature for expediting passage of a tax relief bill that will prevent homes and businesses in Queens and the Bronx from being hit with a spike in electricity bills this summer due to an adverse ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) earlier this year. Last month, Crowley, working closely with Mayor Bloomberg, led a bipartisan City delegation letter to the FERC seeking an appeal of the ruling and a delay in any resulting electricity price increase until all appeals were final.

“Families in Queens and the Bronx are struggling to make ends meet, and a spike in electricity prices on top of rising food, housing and gas prices would have made life even more difficult for them,” said Crowley. “I salute Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg for their tireless efforts in working with the Legislature to pass this critical electricity relief bill and I am pleased to have been a part of the effort to stop these rate hikes before they were passed on to consumers this summer.”

In January, the FERC ruled that City tax benefits for private electricity generators would no longer be calculated in the expected energy needs of the City. These tax benefits are used by the City to lower the rates paid by consumers for the cost of electricity. This adverse ruling could have led to an increase in electricity prices City-wide by up to $525 million a year, or an increase in electricity rates for every business and resident of New York City by 10-15 percent starting this summer.

The text of the bipartisan letter spearheaded by Crowley is below:

April 1, 2011

The Honorable Jon Wellinghoff
Chairman
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20426

Dear Chairman Wellinghoff,

We are gravely concerned about the impact of the Commission’s January 28th order (“Order”) on the New York Independent System Operator’s November 30, 2010 demand curve filing (ER11-2224), which will significantly increase the price paid for electricity supply by New York City customers over the next three years. If the Order is not reversed, the electricity rates of our constituents will rise dramatically without any clear justification or benefit.

The Commission’s decision to disregard any of the existing tax abatement opportunities made available by the City of New York, in addition to the other changes contained in its Order, could contribute to a rate increase for New York City electric customers of up to $525 million annually. This would represent up to a 12% increase in summer electric bills for the average residential customer in the first year alone. In its Order, the Commission decided that it would apply no tax abatement in determining the target price for building new generation capacity in New York City, even though the New York City Industrial Development Agency had approved a revised tax policy specifically intended to encourage new, clean and efficient generation in New York City.

Electric reliability is important, and providing adequate economic incentives for new electric generation when needed is also important. But, given the current and expected surplus of generation in New York City, higher capacity payments to generators are neither necessary nor justified and would instead provide windfall profits for the current NYC electric generators.

Furthermore, the existing generators are generally exempt from property taxes. And there are two New York City generators that are under construction and expected to come on line shortly that will also not be paying property taxes, including one project that is physically located in New Jersey (and which is planned to be electrically connected to New York City).

New York City, Con Edison, the NYISO, the State Public Service Commission and Consumer Protection Board and others have accordingly petitioned for rehearing of the Order, and we request that you do take the time to fully reconsider the impact of the Commission’s Order on the customers and citizens of the City of New York. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Joseph Crowley

Edolphus Towns

Anthony D. Weiner

Eliot L Engel

Charles B. Rangel

Yvette D. Clarke

Jerrold Nadler

José E. Serrano

Gary L. Ackerman

Michael G. Grimm

Carolyn B. Maloney

Gregory W. Meeks

cc: Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur

Commissioner Phillip Moeller

Commissioner John Norris

Commissioner Mark Spitzer

Crowley Speaks Out Against GOP’s Pro-Tax Increase and Anti-Choice Bill

Below are Congressman Joe Crowley’s (D-Queens, the Bronx) remarks as prepared for delivery on the House floor today during debate on the Republicans’ H.R. 3 – legislation that would infringe on Americans’ rights to make decisions about their own health as well as prohibit employers from receiving tax credits for employees’ health care coverage if the plan includes abortion care, ultimately raising costs for employees’ health insurance and burdening America’s small businesses:

“Mr. Speaker, on the Republicans’ 100^th day of majority rule in the House, I stood speechless on the House floor at their failed campaign promise to focus on job creation and economic growth.

“They say actions speak louder than words, and it is true.

“For all the Republicans’ talk about putting Americans back to work, their actions demonstrate this is the least of their priorities. Instead, they have cut jobs, raised taxes and reduced Americans’ access to health care.

“The bill being debated today also has no jobs component whatsoever. In fact, it will raise taxes and hamper small businesses. In their ideological zeal to restrict women’s right to choose, the Republicans have prioritized a measure that the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce calls a “slap in the face” to small business owners.

“My colleagues, please remember that your actions, not words, are what truly speak for you.

“If you vote for this bill, you are voting to raise taxes and hurt small businesses.

“I urge you to vote to uphold your campaign promises.

“Vote no on this bill and let’s get back to work on America’s priorities.”

MoveOn.org Tax Day 2011 Demonstration Outside Citigroup Headquarters, Queens, NYC by VinsonV - YouTube

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MoveOn Targets Citibank In Queens by Joseph Orovic - Queens Tribune

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David Yale stood in front of Citibank’s Bell Boulevard branch, offering worn scrunchies to passersby.

“Free tax loophole?” he said. “Would you like the one Citibank used to pay zero dollars in taxes?”

Sporting signs that read “Make Deadbeat Corporations Pay,” a group of protestors used Tax Day to decry a system that allowed multi-billion dollar companies to pay nothing in taxes, and in some cases walk away with a refund.

The protesters in Bayside were part of a larger group of staged protests around the country organized by liberal netroots group MoveOn.org. The picketing was aimed at drawing attention to a system they contend has been corrupted by profits, influence peddling and a soft stance on corporate taxation. Citigroup refused to comment.

“I think that there’s a lot of collusion between corporations and the politicians,” said Joe Lauria, co-coordinator for the Queens Council of MoveOn.org. “People generally in America are asleep politically.”

Lauria and 50 others banded together at Citigroup’s headquarters in Long Island City to protest the bank’s willingness to accept government bailout money combined with aversion to paying taxes.

Yale’s protest was particularly striking, as it rested in the middle of a district that kept a Republican in the State Senate for 38 years and has an unabashedly Republican Councilman, Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone).

“I’d like to welcome MoveOn.org to Bayside on behalf of the many overtaxed families that live here,” Halloran said. “I’d be curious if MoveOn had anything to say about the sky-high taxes and big government regulations that are killing the small businesses they marched by on Bell Boulevard.”

Those joining picket line with Yale said awareness needed to be raised over the issue.

“The media doesn’t cover it,” said Michael McGrath, not mentioning the fact that he was saying it to a reporter.

Protesters to Bank of America: Pay Your Taxes

On April 15, in the run up to this year's Tax Day, hundreds of protesters descended on a Bank of America branch in Union Square, New York City. They demanded that big banks start paying their fair share of taxes and stop foreclosures, and they also called for the government to break up banks that are "too big to fail." Around fifty people entered the lobby of a nearby Bank of America branch with signs reading, "Stop Foreclosures! People Before Profits!" and "We pay our taxes. Why doesn't Bank of America?"

Tax Protesters from MoveOn.org Take Aim at Bell Blvd. Citibank by Rich Bockmann - YourNabe.com

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Joe Aslaender of Richmond Hill holds a sign he created for a protest in Bayside. Photo by Christina Santucci

With federal budget talks on their minds, protesters gathered outside the Citibank branch at the corner of Bell Boulevard and 39th Avenue in Bayside Monday to draw attention to what they claimed are unfair corporate tax practices.

About 20 protesters chose to participate on Tax Day in moveon.org’s “Make Them Pay” campaign, which claims millionaires and corporations avoid paying their fair share of taxes by taking advantage of tax loopholes.Moveon.org is a progressive, political action advocacy group.

“We bailed them out and then they turn around and use loopholes,” said the event’s organizer, David Yale. Yale said the specific loophole he refers to is one that allows a foreign subsidiary of a U.S. company to exempt foreign-generated earnings from U.S. corporate income tax as long as it does not bring the cash back to the U.S.

The United States imposes one of the highest corporate tax rates at 35 percent. U.S. companies do pay local corporate taxes to the country where the income is generated, and if the cash is repatriated to the United States, the company pays the difference between the foreign tax and the U.S tax. Yale, a Bayside resident, said he had not personally written his legislators about the corporate tax loophole.

Citigroup Monday reported its first-quarter earnings plummeted 32 percent from a year earlier to $2.99 billion from $4.43 billion in the January-March quarter of 2010, while revenue was down 22 percent to $19.7 billion. The banking giant announced late last month that it would resume paying a dividend after the crushing financial problems it faced before the federal bailout.

Moveon.org contends that Citigroup — along with GE, Bank of America, Google, BP, Amazon, Wells Fargo, Boeing, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Goldman Sachs and Chase — are some of the wealthiest corporations in the country doing everything in their power to avoid paying U.S. taxes. The organization’s web site frames the issue in the context of tax breaks for the wealthy at a time when the federal government is slashing public services.

“During these difficult economic times, when all Americans are being asked to sacrifice, it is simply wrong that Citigroup is shirking their American duty to pay their taxes,” said Yale. “We are protesting on Tax Day because corporate tax dodgers have a responsibility to our community and our nation to pay their fair share. We pay our taxes. Citibank should, too.”

Yale said Citigroup has 427 offshore tax havens and, if it paid its fare share of taxes, it would owe $1.5 trillion. Officials at Citibank would not comment on the group’s claim.

For about an hour protesters held up signs — with one reading, “It’s tax day! We bailed Citibank out now they must pay their share of taxes” — and handed out literature to Citibank customers and passersby.

Michael McGrath said he has been laid off from his union plumbing job for 15 months and owes New York state $2,900 in taxes since he did not have anything deducted from his unemployment check.

“How come I have to pay my taxes and they don’t? These are people who don’t need tax breaks. Their incomes are through the stratosphere,” he said.

He acknowledged that while the corporations on moveon.org’s list are taking advantage of legal tax loopholes, their participation makes them complicit in an unfair system.

McGrath also said he did not think the protest was aimed at employees of this particular branch.

“I don’t think this branch thinks it’s against them. I think they know it’s against the corporation,” he said.

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Rep. Weiner Releases 2010 Personal Tax Filing

Today, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) released his personal 2010 Federal and State income tax returns.

Rep. Weiner earned $156,117 of income in the year 2010. He made payments of $15,275 in New York City/State taxes, and $30,697 in Federal taxes.

Weiner has released his returns every tax year since 2004.

Copies of Weiner’s complete tax return are available upon request by contacting Dave Arnold at Rep Weiner's office.

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News From Assembly Member Mike Miller (38th Assembly District)

Assemblyman Helps Raise Pennies for Patients

Assemblyman Miller (D-Queens) joined PS 239 in Ridgewood for their “Pennies for Patients” initiative. The program encourages students to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. PS 239 has participated in this fund-raiser every year since 2004 and has raised over $1,000 every year.

“I am glad that in PS 239 we have a school dedicated to civic responsibility” Assemblyman Miller said. “It really is impressive what these students are capable of doing and I wanted to ensure they were properly congratulated.”

Pictured Left to Right: Principal Robin Connolly, Kate Gordon representing the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Assemblyman Mike Miller, Robert Monahan, and Parent Coordinator Gloria Morgenstern.

Assemblyman Miller: Sales Tax Exemption a Welcome Relief for Consumers, Businesses

As the state grapples with passing a difficult, on-time budget, one marked by painful cuts to close a $10 billion budget gap, cash-strapped families and clothing retailers will get needed relief. Beginning April 1, clothing, footwear and related items sold for less than $55 each will be exempt from the state’s 4 percent sales tax, as well as the 0.375 percent sales tax for the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District.

The tax-free status applies to all relevant items purchased on or after the April 1 start date, whether they’re paid for in person, over the Internet, by phone or by mail. The exemption, which was set in motion last year to help taxpayers, will grow to include apparel costing less than $110 on April 1, 2012.

And the relief can’t come soon enough for our working families, who have struggled to keep afloat amid a down economy and a rising cost of living. The sales tax cut – which will save a family of four an estimated $90-$100 per year – will give those hardest hit by the regressive levy a much-needed break, helping them to better afford vital clothing and footwear.

The exemption will re-energize our economy and keep more dollars in taxpayers’ pockets at a time when it’s most critical. While this is sure to be a help for New York, particularly our communities that border New Jersey and Pennsylvania, we have more work to do if we’re to put the state back on the road to prosperity. That’s why I’ll continue exploring ways to ease the burden on hardworking taxpayers and clear a path for businesses to flourish.

For more information on the sales tax exemption, visit the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance’s website at www.tax.ny.gov.

Assemblyman Miller Holds Essay Contest for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month, Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Queens) put a challenge out to local school children, asking them to write an essay about influential women in history. Essay submissions included a wide spectrum of influential women, including Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 


Winners were presented with official citations from the Assemblyman congratulating them on their work. Schools that submitted essays included PS 108, PS 97, PS 91, PS 113, IS 77, Saint Pancras, Saint Mary Gate of Heaven, and Sacred Heart Academy.

Picture Caption, AM Miller with Saint Mary Gate of Heaven: Assemblyman Miller stands with faculty and students from Saint Mary Gate of Heaven in Ozone Park, who participated in the Women’s History Month Essay Contest.

Picture Caption, AM Miller with Saint Pancras: Assemblyman Miller stands with faculty and students from Saint Pancras in Glendale, who participated in the Women’s History Month Essay Contest.

Advisory: Miller Announces Staff Change

Assemblyman Michael Miller (D-Queens) announced today his appointment of Nicholas Roloson as his new Chief of Staff.

Nicholas previously served as Director of Communications for Assemblyman Miller as well as campaign manager for the Assemblyman’s re-election campaign. Both roles have provided him with a deep understanding and appreciation of Assembly District 38

“Nick is young and extremely capable” Assemblyman Miller said. “He has proven through hard work and dedication that he both cares about our community and has the know-how to serve us well."

In addition to his work in government, Nicholas currently serves as president of the College Democrats of New York, which includes over 30 chapters in every region of New York State.

Assemblyman Miller Calls for Cooperation in Sex Offender Case

In response to a request from police to help identify any additional potential victims of accused child molester David Hartshorn, Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Queens) called upon Hartshorn's former employer, ex-Assembly candidate Joe Fox, to begin assisting in the investigation. Hartshorn had served as Fox's campaign manager, and had brought children to campaign events with Fox.

Miller said that Fox should immediately provide police with a list of all children brought to campaign events by Hartshorn, so they can be interviewed by police and counselors to ensure that they were not also victims of abuse, and receive proper counseling if needed.

”Since I was elected to the Assembly, I have made it a priority of mine to protect our children from the dangers of sexual predators. “Miller said. “I am asking that Mr. Fox cooperate with the police in this matter to ensure that all victims receive proper treatment, and that justice is served. We must ensure the protection of our children.”

Statement from Assemblyman Miller Regarding Census Count

The 38th Assembly District is full of immigrants from the Caribbean, European, South Asian and Latin American communities. I find it to be an outrageous claim that the population of our entire borough has only increased by a thousand people when I have seen that level of growth just in my district alone. I stand with the Mayor in his call to revisit these numbers to ensure that immigrant communities receive the adequate level of services they deserve.

New York Millionaires Offer to Pay Extra Taxes to Offset Budget Cuts by Julie Shapiro - DNAinfo

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Millionaires across New York State are banding together to ask for more taxes.

About 100 wealthy New Yorkers, including actor Mark Ruffalo, say they want to do their part to help the state out of its budget crisis, and they are encouraging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to extend the so-called millionaire's tax.

"Many of us New Yorkers are troubled that you're giving a $5 billion tax cut to 2 percent of New York's most wealthy, while cutting $9 billion from education and social services for the rest of New Yorkers," Ruffalo said in an online video addressing Cuomo.

"Please, ditch this backwards Robin Hood plan and give all New Yorkers a fair shake."

The millionaire's tax, which is slated to expire in April, takes about an extra 2 percent in state taxes from individuals making over $200,000 a year or families making over $300,000.

A group called New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness sent an open letter with about 100 signatures to Cuomo and state legislators Thursday urging them to renew the tax to avert the budget cuts.

Donald Shaffer, 82, an Upper East Side resident who worked in insurance and serves on the board of the Civil Liberties Union, said he signed the letter because he would be glad to pay the extra tax.

"This is what is decent and sensible as part of the social contract," Shaffer said in a phone interview Thursday. "We've done very well in our society, and we should be happy to see to it that others who require public services are not short-changed."

Cuomo's spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who oppose extending the tax, have said they worry it would drive wealthy New Yorkers out of the state, but Shaffer said that was "absurd."

"The mayor has not left," Shaffer pointed out.

Shaffer added that the recently extended Bush tax cuts would remove most of the burden of the millionaire's tax, so it would not have a large impact on people's finances.

The United Federation of Teachers and lower Manhattan parents are also advocating for the stateto extend the tax, so the city doesn't get hit with over $1 billion in cuts to education funding.

Other rich city residents who signed onto the open letter include Bill Samuels, a Democratic activist and entrepreneur, and Leo Hindrey Jr., chairman of the Economic Growth/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New American Foundation.

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Rep Joe Crowley Standing Up for the Middle Class

Crowley Criticizes GOP for Voting to Raise Taxes on American Families

Today, Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), a Chief Deputy Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives, criticized Republicans for voting to increase taxes on hard-working, middle class American families. Included in the Republican Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011 (H.R. 4), a bill to repeal the onerous 1099 reporting provision in the Affordable Care Act (P.L.111-192), is a $25 billion tax increase on the middle class. The Republicans’ tax increase would mean that slight changes in income throughout the year could force middle-income families to owe significantly more taxes on their health benefits.

“Well, it certainly didn’t take long for Republicans to break their campaign pledge to not raise taxes on the American people. Republicans’ broken promise not only came fast and furious, it came on the backs of hard-working, middle class Americans,” said Congressman Crowley. “Repealing the 1099 provision should be about lifting a burden on America’s small-businesses, not about placing one on the middle-class. But today, Republicans chose to do just that – further burden hard-working American families.”

Crowley, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, spearheaded the effort to block Republicans from raising taxes on middle-income families as part of H.R. 4. Crowley offered an amendment to prevent any tax increases on the middle class during the Ways and Means Committee’s consideration of the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 (H.R. 705), a bill that was later incorporated into H.R. 4. Along a straight party-line vote, Republicans rejected the Crowley amendment and, in turn, rejected their own pledge to not raise taxes on American families.


Congressman Crowley is a seven-term representative from the 7th Congressional District of New York, which includes sections of Queens and the Bronx. He serves as chief deputy whip in the Democratic leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is responsible for all tax, trade and Social Security issues, as well as health and retirement security.

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His documentary film on that crisis, Capitalism Hits the Fan, can be previewed at www.capitalismhitsthefan.com. He also published a book of essays on the current crisis in 2010 entitled Capitalism Hits the Fan: the Global Economic meltdown and What to Do About it. Detailed information on and copies of his many writings, audios and videos of his media interviews, lectures, and classes, and his speaking schedule are all available at his website: www.rdwolff.com.

Senator Addabbo Warns Taxpayers: Check Credentials of Your Tax Preparer

Tax Credit Fraud Investigation by Dept. of Taxation & Finance Saves the State Millions

During another tax filing season, when most people are stressed enough to get their returns completed accurately and filed by deadline, NYS Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. (D-Queens), issued a warning to taxpayers about a scheme involving a growing number of tax preparers filing claims for the Special Additional Mortgage Recording Tax Credit on behalf of taxpayers who are not entitled to the credit.

According to New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Acting Commissioner Jamie Woodward, the Department, through its audit processes, has disallowed more than 3,600 claims for this tax credit, which has resulted in $18.5 million in savings to New York State. The Department has an ongoing criminal investigation regarding the alleged fraud.

“Claims of fraudulent credits are growing significantly,” noted Senator Addabbo. He added, “This case and others the Department has investigated highlight the need for taxpayers to perform their due diligence when choosing a preparer and to review their returns for accuracy.”

The investigation concerns taxpayers who have claimed this credit for residential properties using Form IT-256, “Claim for Special Additional Mortgage Recording Tax Credit.” In general, very few taxpayers are legitimately entitled to this credit, which mostly involves large commercial properties. Typically, the personal income tax claims come from partners in a real estate investment partnership.

The scheme generally involves reporting all costs associated with a residential property closing as Special Additional Mortgage Recording Tax. Unscrupulous preparers are reportedly charging fees in the range of 25-40 percent of the credit.

Acting Commissioner Woodward advises taxpayers that caution should be exercised when choosing a preparer and additionally, they should be especially wary of refund scams or fraud when using a preparer for their tax returns.

The taxpayer is the responsible party when the Department disallows fraudulently claimed credits or deductions. The taxpayer is responsible not only for the actual tax obligation, but may face additional interest, penalties and possible criminal sanctions associated with fraudulent activity.

The Tax Department has published a Consumer Bill of Rights brochure, which provides helpful information on choosing a tax preparer. The brochure can be found at the Department’s Web site: http://www.taxstate.ny.us/pdf/publications/income/pub135.pdf.

The Tax Department advises those seeking a preparer to:

• obtain references from the preparer’s clients;
• ask about service fees in advance and avoid preparers who guarantee a refund or base their fees on a percentage of the refund or credit;
• make sure they can contact the preparer after the return is filed; and
• research the preparer’s credentials through the Better Business Bureau, State Bar Association, or licensing authority for CPAs.

For more information, contact the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance in Albany at 518-457-4242 or Senator Addabbo’s District Offices in Howard Beach (718-738-1111) or in Middle Village (718-497-1630).