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Senate Report: Why New York Fails to Collect Cigarette Taxes on Native American Reservations

June 12, 2010

New York State faces a $9 billion shortfall while failing to collect taxes on the billions of dollars worth of cigarettes sold by Native American reservations. Why? Read the report by the New York Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations

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Gotham Announces Huge Expansion – Two Key Lobbyists Join Team

June 10, 2010

High powered lobbyist Bill Driscoll has joined the firm as a partner. In addition, Mark Lieberman has joined the firm as a political consultant. We also open a new, Manhattan Office.

Audio: David Schwartz, Brad Gerstman Support Business Owners Against New Tax

June 9, 2010

Gotham Government Relations founders, David Schwartz and Brad Gerstman joined small business owners in protest over New York’s new tobacco tax. Hear what they had to say:

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Cigar Lovers Fumed Over New Tax

June 9, 2010

With a proposal for increased cigarette tax on the table, tobacco enthusiasts in New York are protesting, saying the government is getting too meddlesome and that it would severely hurt businesses.

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Proposed NY Tax Claims First Small Business Victim

June 4, 2010

Uptown Cigar Company, of Kingston, New York, is leaving town. After 14 years in its present location, owner Michelle Tuchman has decided to move the company down to Florida. The New York location will close on June 30, 2010, and the operation will begin in Florida on July 1, 2010.

Do New York Businesses Need Any More Hardship?

June 4, 2010

Take a look at what business owners told Newsday about how New York’s proposed tobacco tax increase will destroy small businesses in our state. Many of these shops are struggling, with some seeing a 30 percent drop in sales following last year’s tax increase on non-cigarette tobacco products, from 37 percent to 46 percent. “If we are going to go out of business, they are going to collect zero.”

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How American Cancer Society Uses Your Money

June 2, 2010

I want to point out some of the more nauseating facts about this billion dollar organization that should make everyone’s blood boil – especially those whom have somehow been touched by this insidious disease called cancer.
ACS has been part and parcel of the destruction of wonderful small businesses, including the shutting down of thousands of bodegas over the past decade. It seems like their only success is to lobby for higher tobacco taxes which have put our wonderful New York businesses out of business and have led to an illegal cigarette and cigar market that are making the criminals very rich and honest hardworking New Yorkers very poor and out of business.

Government Relations, Strategic Consulting and Advocacy

May 26, 2010

New York’s fastest-growing government relations firm, Gotham Government Relations, provides lobbying, advocacy and consulting to its clients. Gotham offers its clients forward-thinking strategies that tap into political trends and opportunities. The work of its partners has resulted in shaping public policy on a number of key matters, including business advocacy and strategy; land use; special [...]

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