Albany, NY - Comptroller Asks to Revise Taxes on the Dead

Albany, NY - Death taxes are apparently a sure thing in New York. A state audit finds that the $8 fee paid by cemeteries every time someone is buried is bringing in about $73,000 more each year than is disbursed for maintenance and repairing damage from the weather and vandals. New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the state Cemetery Board should consider revising its fees, which...