Yonkers personal income-tax collections increased 33 percent from the 2010-11 state fiscal year to the 2011-12 fiscal year, to $34.9 million, according to recently released records from the New York Department of Taxation and Finance.
Efffective for the 2011 tax year, the rate of the Yonkers resident income-tax surcharge increased from 10 percent to 15 percent of the net state tax.
The nearly $35 million is the most that has been collected in one year since the tax was implemented. The largest amount collected before that was $31.2 million in 1986. The low points were the 1984-85 fiscal year, the first year it was in effect, when $2.2 million was paid and the 2002-03 fiscal year, when it was $9.3 million.
The state’s fiscal year runs from April 1-March 31.
Here are the numbers from the state:
2012—$34,859,663
2011—$26,196,864
2010—$26,396,717
2009—$32,648,187
2008—$29,801,389
2007—$31,458,276
2006—$15,558,273
2005—$10,429,004
2004—$9,492,055
2003—$9,235,686
2002—$10,513,710
2001—$13,295,786
2000—$21,611,618
1999—$23,882,389
1998—$22,046,358
1997—$23,235,909
1996—$22,735,763
1995—$23,812,281
1994—$25,933,493
1993—$23,366,531
1992—$25,827,582
1991—$22,377,215
1990—$22,724,365
1989—$20,748,393
1988—$23,384,344
1987—$17,445,655
1986—$31,194,946
1985—$2,197,859
