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"Essex County officials expect to see about $2 million more in revenue coming into county coffers each year as a result of a sales tax hike.Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Adirondack county's one-quarter percent sales tax hike into law on Tuesday. The increase will bring the sales tax rate to 4 percent, if the Essex County Board of Supervisors approves the increase at its September meeting. That would give Essex County a total rate of 8 percent, combined with the state's 4 percent sales tax.Surrounding counties already have an 8 percent sales tax rate.Local media reports County Manager Daniel Palmer told supervisors that the increased sales tax revenue will help, but won't close an anticipated $8 million budget gap next year."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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