Greenburgh OKs Hotel Occupancy Tax

GREENBURGH, NY — The Greenburgh Town Board voted Friday to approve the 3 percent hotel occupancy tax recently authorized by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature.

The law goes into effect Feb. 1, Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said.

“We anticipate receiving as much as a million dollars a year in additional revenue as a result of this vote,” he said, add that the revenue will be used to keep taxes in unincorporated Greenburgh down.

The so-called “bed tax” would be in addition to sales tax and the 3 percent county occupancy tax.

Other towns given the ability to collect the tax were Mount Pleasant and North Castle in Westchester and Woodbury in Orange. Villages that can now collect the occupancy tax are Sleepy Hollow, Tuckahoe, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Port Chester and Mount Kisco.

The hotel tax is already in place for Yonkers, White Plains, New Rochelle, Rye and Rye Brook.

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