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Monday, June 14, 2021 - 5:46 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
OGDENSBURG – City Manager Stephen Jellie says the City of Ogdensburg will lose up to $1.5 million in sales tax revenue after the New York State Assembly failed to pass home rule legislation regarding sales tax distribution.
The city plans to begin collecting its own sales tax in 2020, but won’t be able to collect 2.5 percent of the tax generated there without state approval. Instead it will collect just 1.5 percent, that’s a difference of as much as $1.5 million, according to estimates.
“The City of Ogdensburg is disappointed that the NYS Assembly was not able to act on a bill authorizing the collection of an additional 1 percent sales tax to be collected beginning in 2022. We sincerely hope the Assembly will follow the action to approve this bill that was approved by the NYS Senate on Thursday evening. Ogdensburg Mayor Jeffrey M. Skelly and City Council are greatly appreciative
OGDENSBURG — City officials said Friday they are disappointed that home rule legislation pending in the state Legislature that would have allowed the city to collect an additional 1% of