No Tax Subsidies

No Amazon tax breaks. $101.5 million. Nobody has shown why." Then the sign button (to /sign) and the deadline: written comments close Thursday, Sept. 17, 4 PM.

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This petition matters because the Orange County IDA & Monitor are legall obligated to consider public opinion, which means that every signature counts. We will be sending the petition on Thursday Set 17th at 3pm but we will continue getting signatures. A vast majority of people on Orange County still do not know about this project.

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*$101.5 million. A 10-year property tax abatement worth about $70 million, plus $31 million in sales tax exemptions, for a 3.2-million-square-foot Amazon warehouse in Wawayanda.

*$48 million more than the law already gives. The IDA's own consultant found Amazon would pay $67.1 million under the existing state tax break and $18.9 million under this deal. The difference comes out of Minisink Valley schools, the Town of Wawayanda, and Orange County.Nobody has shown it's needed.

*The State Monitor vetoed the last version because Amazon wouldn't document that it needs a subsidy. A court upheld the veto. The new request still doesn't answer the question.T

*he IDA already authorized a cap on warehouse tax breaks (7–0, August 19) and a moratorium on new applications. It hasn't adopted the cap or scheduled the hearing. Amazon's hearing was scheduled within days.

*A year ago Amazon told the NYS Department of State that $80 million in required fireproofing would make the project "unviable," and got a variance from the State Fire Code's structural fire-resistance rules (Petition No. 2024-0496). That relief never appeared in the IDA's record. Counting it, public support for this warehouse approaches $181 million, for a building full of lithium-ion robots that volunteer fire companies would be called to defend.

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