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America Unhinged Seg #2

3/9/2022

Divide NYS Caucus Inc joined us to talk about partitioning NYS into three autonomous regions.

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Proposal would divide New York State into 3 separate, self-governing regions

1/5/2022

NEW YORK (WETM) – The rift between upstate and downstate New York could finally divide the state for good, thanks to a proposal from state lawmakers that would split New York into three separate, autonomous regions.

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I Love New Amsterdam? Proposal to split NY State into three parts is back

1/4/2022

The subject of dividing up the state into three autonomous regions has come up again.
News 10 NBC reports the town of Bethany in Genesee County has scheduled a series of meetings with the town of Marilla in Erie County to discuss the issue. Both town have voted in favor of home rule measures in favor of the split.

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Happy New Year

1/1/2022

Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah

12/4/2021

Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year

Response to Erie County officials’ business killing health restrictions

11/29/2021

How to get Erie County NY officials’ health restrictions on who can enter businesses repealed and never reissued. While the officials do NOT care how many may have lost their employment over these rules. These rules may have a side effect that these officials will care about it can cost them property tax money.
While many businesses owners are already aware of these facts. What some county officials seem to have overlooked is by damaging retail business income they have reduced the value of the real property in the county as calculated by income and expense model of commercial property tax assessment.
Unlike private home tax challenges which an individual can handle and are explained here https://www.divideny.org/challenge-your-assessment.html . Commercial property tax challenges require each business/landlord to ask the accountant that does their business taxes to do a few more calculations at tax time. If the business rents its business space it should try to make an agreement with the landlord to help the property owner reduce his/her property taxes for a lower rent.
Many businesses can share the same attorney to file the multiple commercial property tax challenges before the spring Grievance Day to reduce their September 2022 and January 2023 property taxes. Hopefully enough businesses will take action so that it becomes too expensive for the county to reimpose these rules in the future.

Most of Erie County is assessed at less than market value so an accurate business property tax assessment should be a certain percentage below full market value. This will also work for other counties. Here is how Equalization works
Equalization rate formula
An equalization rate is New York State's measure of a municipality's level of assessment.
Total assessed value of the municipality ÷ total market value of the municipality = Equalization rate
Equalization rates are percentages: Examples
Equalization rate = 100:

town is assessing property at 100% of market value
most likely a reassessment was conducted in recent years
your property's assessment should be roughly its market value (the price for which you could sell your property)

Equalization rate < 100:

overall property in the town is assessed less than market value
the lower the equalization rate, the longer it has probably been since the last reassessment
equalization rate of 43 means overall property in the town is assessed at 43% of market value

Equalization rate > 100:

overall property in the town is assessed higher than market value
property values may have decreased since the last reassessment, but assessments were not adjusted downward
Greater 100 percent that means your whole town/city/village is over assessed at more than 100 percent full market value which is unlawful in NY. However, the only method available to force a municipality to obey the law and reduce everyone’s assessment down to full market value is an action in New York State Supreme Court. (a trial court in NY).

Here is a link to the equalization tables by county https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/property/assess/eqratecounty.htm
Here is how to contest a non-residential property assessment https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/contest/contestasmt.htm

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Happy Thanksgiving

11/25/2021

Contact your local paper or tv/radio station

11/19/2021

Write an editorial or letter to the editor of your local paper or email your local news station; on why you believe separation is the only choice. Please mention A04446- S4541 is a NYS constitutional amendment to divide the State into three autonomous regions. If it's published, please take a picture or email a link, send it to us at capitalchapterupstate@aol.com

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Video of Presentation of Home Rule request Grand Island

11/1/2021

Video of Presentation of Home Rule request, in support of partitioning New York State into three Autonomous Regions, to the Town Board of Grand Island. Timecode in video is 1:25:00 from beginning or -14:30 from end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4MIFs1GUg