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Thursday, June 12, 2003
 
Council Irked at Mayor's Call for Tax-Free Shopping Weeks Council Irked at Mayor's Call for Tax-Free Shopping Weeks
By MICHAEL COOPER

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on the City Council yesterday to approve two tax-free weeks on clothing sales, leading Council officials, who said they had long planned to do so anyway, to speculate that he was trying to take credit for the move.
From March 2000 until this month, when taxes that the mayor had lobbied Albany for took effect, there was no sales tax on shoes or articles of clothing costing less than $110 each. When the state and city raised their sales taxes and dropped the exemption on clothing, the state said that it would keep two tax-free weeks on clothing sales, and it invited the city to do so as well.
Mr. Bloomberg said in an interview last night on NY1 News that the Council should "do something for these people who are paying more taxes" and approve two weeks free of the sales tax on clothing, instead of rescinding more proposed budget cuts. The move would cost the city around $47 million in lost revenue.

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