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Rules Committee expands volunteer firefighter/EMS exemption and approves higher veteran property-tax exemption limits
Summary
The committee advanced a local law to expand property-tax exemptions for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers to include volunteers who serve in districts adjoining their home municipality, and approved raising county limits on veterans'property-tax exemptions (unchanged since 2001). Both measures were passed by the committee.
The Rules Committee approved a local law to expand the county'level property-tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers so that eligible volunteers may qualify if they serve in a fire or EMS district that adjoins their home municipality. The proposed change follows a state amendment to New York Real Property Tax Law that permits counties to extend the exemption to adjoining districts.
Paul Wiley, Director of…
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