property tax

City Council has unanimously approved Mayor Richard David’s proposed $35.2 million tax budget, with City spending of close to $95 million.

Both Broome County Executive Jason Garnar and Binghamton Mayor Richard David are projecting property tax cuts in their proposed budgets.

Broome County is allowing some property owners to prepay their 2018 property taxes.

Town Supervisors in the region are joining others around the state to tell Governor Andrew Cuomo: ‘Don’t blame us for high taxes.’

The City of Binghamton's new financial plan includes a .25% tax cut for residential properties and a .84% reduction in the tax on commercial properties.

Senator Thomas Libous says he wants New York state's property tax cap to be made permanent. The Republican-controlled Senate has voted in favor of retaining the tax cap which was enacted in 2011. Libous, a Binghamton Republican, did not vote on the plan to keep the tax cap...

A report released by an Albany-based organization that promotes public policy reforms confirms what many Binghamton property owners probably suspected: The local effective property tax rate is higher than any other city in New York. The Empire Center for Public Policy determined the effective tax rate for Binghamton was $58...

Union-Endicott school district officials are developing a spending plan that would not cut programs or slash the workforce. The budget proposal will be discussed in a workshop that's planned for tonight. The session will be held at seven o'clock in the boardroom of the district office building at 1100 East Main Street in Endicott...

A family's battle with Broome County to prevent a Binghamton home from being sold at auction for back taxes may be nearing an end. Volodymyr Kurylo has been notified by County Executive Debra Preston that she has set up the closing for the West Side house for Monday...

A man who's been working to keep a family home on Binghamton's West Side said it appears to him that Broome County "still wants to punish us." Volodymyr Kurylo -- who now lives in the state of Maine -- said he met with county attorney Robert Behnke and real property tax service director Kevin Keough Tuesday morning...