MOUNT HOPE, N.Y.—Orange County legislators on April 28 unanimously co-sponsored a resolution to send a home rule regulation to the state Legislature to legalize a county tax distribution error that has persisted unnoticed since 2014.
New York law allows counties to generally tax up to 3 percent, and Orange County collects a 3.75 percent local sales tax. The county can tax even more under an incremental tax system that requires state legislative authorization every two years. It then shares about 26 percent of the collected tax money with local municipalities every year.
