PRINTER'S NO. 1450
No. 99 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY GREENWOOD, PETERSON, MADIGAN, LEMMOND, LEWIS,
ANDREZESKI, BAKER AND REIBMAN, JULY 7, 1989
REFERRED TO INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, JULY 7, 1989
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Urging the Governor to take action against the State of New York
2 for imposing unfair taxation upon residents of Pennsylvania.
3 WHEREAS, The State of New York has amended its state income
4 tax law to impose increased rates of taxation on the residents
5 of other states who earn wages in New York; and
6 WHEREAS, Thousands of Pennsylvania residents are now being
7 taxed by New York at rates that reflect all of their income,
8 without regard to how it is earned and without regard to whether
9 that income was earned under the protection of the laws of New
10 York; and
11 WHEREAS, This new tax scheme has resulted in the taxation of
12 Pennsylvanians who work in New York at rates entirely
13 disproportionate to the services they consume or the benefits
14 they receive from the State of New York; and
15 WHEREAS, This tax increase is a grossly unfair and
16 inequitable attempt to balance New York's state budget on the
17 backs of thousands of commuters from Pennsylvania, New Jersey
1 and Connecticut; and
2 WHEREAS, Pennsylvania must respond with whatever legal means
3 are available to this extraordinarily callous and devious move
4 by the State of New York; therefore be it
5 RESOLVED (the House of Representatives concurring), That the
6 General Assembly urge the Governor to pursue with the utmost
7 determination all means available for alleviating this
8 inequitable tax, including, but not limited to, legal challenge
9 of New York's action and proposing and endorsing retaliatory
10 legislation against New York residents who work in Pennsylvania;
11 and be it further
12 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution shall be transmitted
13 to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the
14 Governor of the State of New York, the President of the Senate
15 of the State of New York and the Speaker of the Assembly of the
16 State of New York.
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