Tag: counties
Manhattan residents who itemize their federal tax returns pay an average $102,000 in state and local taxes – more than anywhere else. The second highest tax tabs, nearly $50,000, are in Marin County, the home of musicians and movie stars across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Other enclaves with large bills for property,…
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has wonderful funders in Washington, DC who kept urging us to look at the role of counties in the public pension arena. Candidly, sitting in Boston, I didn’t know what they were talking about. As far as I could see, counties did virtually nothing, and the idea…