The state recorded a nearly $10 billion decrease in annual adjusted gross income from 2021 to 2022, tax data shows, with an estimated 425,000 people departing. The data, while older, gives a national perspective on New York’s out-migration challenges and comes amid a heated debate about whether New York should hike taxes on the state’s residents with the wealthiest incomes.
The IRS data shows New York’s highest earners, as well as middle-aged individuals were most likely to leave the state. But other data available from the New York Department of Taxation and Finance shows the number of millionaires moving out of New York dropped since 2022.
Tax filers are departing many blue, coastal states with higher taxes for other parts of the country, the new IRS data shows. Other states that lost the most taxable income from 2021 to 2022 were Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to the IRS. Florida posted the biggest gains by far, recording an increase of $21 billion in annual adjusted gross income that year, followed by Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Arizona.
Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul lamented New York’s “eroded” tax base and urged millionaires who support her policies to “go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home.” Palm Beach County was the biggest magnet for wealth migration in the U.S., the recent IRS data shows.
“We are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals,” she said. “Remote work changed everything. There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan or work in New York state. They were captives to our state. They were going to stay. We’ve (seen) that that’s not the case.”
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LECANTO, Fla. – A group of inmates and employees are accused of working together to introduce contraband into the Citrus County Jail.
The backstory:
According to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, an 18-month investigation began after a federal inmate was found with a banned cell phone.
A federal indictment states that while Justin Harvey was working as a correctional officer, an inmate who was working at the direction of law enforcement approached him and asked him to bring in a contraband cell phone.
According to the document, Harvey agreed and met up with another person to get that cell phone and a $4,000 payment before smuggling it into the detention center and giving it to the inmate.
Another indictment accuses correctional officer Dekarri Nixon of doing the same thing at the request of an inmate who was working at the direction of law enforcement,
Documents state that Courtney Smith, a commissary employee at the Citrus County Detention Center, received at least $5,700 in bribes from federal inmate Joshua Gallimore and his associates. Smith is accused of smuggling a cell phone into the facility in exchange for about $300.
State inmate Ernest Grimaldi is accused of using the facility’s jail call system to direct CCDF nurse Nicole Knecht and former correctional officer Ashley Fraccalvieri to get contraband from outside the CCDF to smuggle it into the facility.
Law enforcement officers said they stopped Knecht with controlled substances after she met with Fraccalvieri.
The officers said they later stopped Fraccalvieri with 400 oxycodone pills that were to be introduced into the facility.
The indictment says that Fraccalvieri got the pills after meeting with April Vanzant.
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Today is supposedly the last day that Canadian gun owners can hand in firearms banned by the Liberal government and still receive compensation for their guns. With just 51,000 firearms turned in as of last week, the federal government has collected just a little more than one-third of the total number of firearms it anticipated receiving, and most provinces have refused to aid in the Liberals’ gun ban scheme.
That opposition, though, has its limits. Blaine Beaven, the new firearms commissioner in Saskatchewan, says the province is working to provide as much protection to gun owners as it can.
Likely on May 1 you will be able to log into the provincial program and put in your information about your firearms to see if they’re affected. If they are affected, you can choose to get an appraisal, and if you get an appraisal, we will also provide you with a certificate of exemption that exempts you from prosecution for continuing to possess and store those firearms after Oct. 30, when the amnesty ends.
There’s going to be conditions attached to that, which includes that you have to be seeking compensation, which can mean sending a demand letter to the feds saying you owe me this much money, and waiting for them to pay. Whether they pay or not remains to be seen.
I know that we are going to have some cases going to court on this issue, and they are going to likely challenge the legislation. The provincial government is going to stand up for the legislation. What that’s going to do is allow people not to worry about getting a knock on the door with a police officer with a warrant saying we’re coming to get your guns that you haven’t given up.
That’s not going to happen in Saskatchewan, so long as you engage with the provincial process that we’ve set up, which is about making sure you’re properly compensated.
Now I know that people are going to say they don’t want to be properly compensated and want to keep the guns, and I’m one of those people, but unfortunately we have to work within the law.
That’s the best that we can do, which I think is better than any other province in the country.
As early as Wednesday, Artemis II will make history, taking astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
The four-person crew will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, for a 10-day journey.
The trip will pave the way for future Artemis missions that could eventually see astronauts set foot on the moon and the building of a permanent lunar base.
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