Orange County Legislative committee approves local gas tax cut

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Gas prices in Poughkeepsie on June 5, 2022.

GOSHEN – The Ways and Means Committee of the Orange County Legislature, Tuesday, voted to cut the county portion of sales tax on gas at the pump in the fourth quarter of the year. The measure now goes to the full legislature next week.

Under the county plan, the first $2 of gas would pay the 3.75 percent tax, but every dollar’s worth thereafter, would not pay the county portion.

The committee approved the proposal by a one-vote margin.

Among those opposed to it is Legislator Michael Anagnostakis. 

“This cannot be enforced, and the gas stations are going to pocket the difference or the whole amount, and the people will continue to pay regardless of what we do here,” he said.

Anagnostakis would rather see a cents-per-gallon reduction.

Legislator Jimmy O’Donnell proposed that only Orange County residents with registered vehicles should receive a calculated reimbursement, and not tourists or others who drive through the county and gas up along the way




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