CHESTER – Three Orange County town supervisors have called for total elimination of the MTA payroll tax in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
The state legislature has eliminated it for businesses with payrolls under $1.25 million a year and school district.

Chester Town Supervisor Steven Neuhaus, Crawford Town Supervisor Charles Carnes and Deerpark Supervisor Karl Brabenec are calling for total repeal of the tax.

Neuhaus said the new law doesn’t go far enough to include all businesses and municipalities. No business or taxpayer should be paying that tax, he said. “Unfortunately, until this law goes away completely, they will continue to suffer.”

Carnes called the tax “a burden on our entire region.”

Brabenec voted the Senate Republican majority earlier this year approved legislation to phase out the MTA in the Mid-Hudson.

“Unfortunately, [Democratic] Assembly Speaker Silver and those who support him refused to let the complete phase out of the MTA tax for our region come up for a vote in the Assembly,” he said.