Middletown Adopts New Sales Tax Sharing Contract With Orange County
The City Council of Middletown, New York, adopted a new three-year sales tax sharing contract with Orange County on Jan. 17.
Middletown now gets the largest share of sales tax among all three cities in the county, largely due to its population advantage.
Based on the 2020 census, Middletown has a population of just over 30,000, and Newburgh has about 28,800.
Middletown Mayor Joe DeStefano told The Epoch Times that the effort by various city agencies to get residents counted in the census worked.
“Middletown is now the largest city in Orange County, for the first time I’ve ever known it to me—and I’ve been around for quite some years,” DeStefano said….