County sets sales tax amounts for villages and towns with some slight changes

Altogether the 10 towns, 4 villages remain at same level since 2001

Charts by Orleans Hub: Three of the villages will see increases in sales tax while Albion takes more than $6,000 hit.

ALBION – The Orleans County Legislature has approved the amounts of sales tax for each of the four villages and 10 towns for 2024. Collectively, they will get $1,366,671, the same amount they have received since 2001.

Each year there are some slight changes for the municipalities depending on any shifts in the taxable values.

The Village of Medina will see the biggest increase, $8,114 – from $152,046 to $160,160. The Village of Albion’s amount will drop by $6,217 from $165,309 to $159,092.

Among the towns, Yates is getting the biggest increase at $4,429 (from $66,679 to $71,108), while Albion’s share outside the village drops $4,888 (from $123,953 to $119,065).

The majority of town and village boards in 2023 passed resolutions asking the County Legislature to increase the sales tax to the municipalities, but the Legislature opted against that in the 2024 budget, citing other rising costs for the county.

The county in 2022 took in $22.5 million in sales tax. Through the first three quarters of 2023, the sales tax went up 2.7 percent in Orleans County from $18.48 million to $18.98 million.

The towns and village receive about 6.0 percent of total. In their resolution asking for more sales tax, the towns and villages asked for 14 percent of the total. That’s what they were receiving in 1996 when the total local sales tax was $9,499,138.

If the county went to a 14 percent share it would have to increase the amount to towns and villages to $3,150,000 – a $1,783,329 increase.