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Adopt a Resolution of Support
A sample resolution you can adapt for your municipality.
Impact on Your Municipality
Calculate the impact of the diversion of Energy Tax Receipts has had on your municipality by inputting on the individual ETR sheet the amount of Energy Tax Receipts your municipality received each year. The worksheet will automatically calculate the difference.
Energy Tax Talking Points
Talking points on A-2753/S-1923 in favor of requiring direct payment of energy taxes to municipal governments.
History of the Diversion of Energy Tax Receipts
The History of Energy Utility Taxation in New Jersey (PDF), Revised April 2018 by Jon Moran, Senior Legislative Analyst, New Jersey State League of Municipalities (ret.).
Appropriating Energy Tax Receipts: The New Normal for New Jersey
- Appropriating Energy Tax Receipts: The New Normal for New Jersey. A Friends of Local Government Policy Paper, Published by the NJLM Educational Foundation.
- NJLM Executive Director Michael J. Darcy, CAE (ret.), discusses the impact of the State budget on municipalities on Comcast Newsmakers May 31, 2018
NJLM Previous Letters
- Why Phil Murphy really wants to raise the sale tax, and why he froze state spending, June 7, 2018, nj.com
- Opinion: Energy taxes belong to New Jersey Towns, January 14, 2013
- New Jersey must stop swiping property tax relief from locals May 17, 2012
- Bernards Township Wants Its Money Back - Basking Ridge Patch, May 15, 2012
- Trenton hoards money that should provide property tax relief April 16, 2012
- Mayors to Christie: Time to give us our money back March 1, 2012
- East Windsor and Hamilton Mayors: Time for state to pay up February 16, 2012
- Energy Tax Talking Points
- Appropriating Energy Tax Receipts: The New Normal for New Jersey, A Friends of Local Government Policy Paper (PDF)
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