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Governor Calls for State-Run Retirement Plan for Private Sector
In his Fiscal Year 2019 budget, Governor Cuomo called for a state-sponsored and run retirement program for private-sector workers whose employers do not offer a qualified plan. The plan is the wrong approach to encouraging retirement savings and unnecessarily would displace the private market.
Federal Tax Reform
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the largest overhaul of the U.S. tax code since the Reagan Administration. The new law makes numerous changes – including permanently dropping the corporate tax rate to 21%, temporarily lowering personal tax rates, and nearly eliminating the state and local tax (SALT) deduction critical to so many New Yorkers. The full text is available HERE. Other details can be found HERE.
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Chautauqua Legislative Luncheon Proves that Small Can Be Mighty
NAIFA-Chautauqua is a small association, but it's awfully active, and on January 25 its members gathered just outside Jamestown for a roundtable luncheon with legislative representatives and NAIFA-NYS senior staff. Topics of discussion at [...]
Buffalo Legislative Breakfast a Rousing Success
Our Buffalo association continued its tradition of successful legislative breakfasts on January 25, when nearly 60 members, non-members, legislators and staff, and NAIFA-NYS representatives gathered in an elegant ballroom at Salvatore's Italian Gardens in [...]
NAIFA-NYS Announces Legislative Breakfast Schedule
Building on their successes in 2017 - when more New York locals held legislative breakfasts than in many, many years - the NAIFA-NYS locals have announced their 2018 calendar of legislative events. The schedule begins [...]
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2017 Was Record Year for Data Breaches in NY
A new study reveals that more than 1,500 data breaches were reported to the NYS Attorney General in 2017--a significant jump from 2016--and that the personal records of 9.2 million New Yorkers (thanks largely to [...]
NYS Senate Passes NAIFA-NYS CE Credit Bill
The New York State Senate on March 27 overwhelmingly passed a NAIFA-NYS-initiated bill requiring the Superintendent of Financial Services to grant six continuing education credits for all active members of a statewide professional insurance producer association [...]
Court of Appeals Vacates – in Its Entirety – the DOL Fiduciary Duty Rule
In a decision that took many observers by surprise, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Texas, vacated in full the Department of Labor's (DOL) controversial fiduciary duty rule on March 15, 2018. The Court [...]