Taxes in Yonkers
Yonkers' real, defining tax fact is its own local income tax -- a genuine exception to New York's usual no-local-income-tax-outside-NYC pattern, working through two separate, distinctly-computed mechanics.
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Learn moreThe resident surcharge: 16.75% of your STATE tax liability
Yonkers residents pay a real 16.75% surcharge -- not a flat rate on wages, but 16.75% of the resident's already-computed NY STATE personal income tax liability, filed on Form Y-203/IT-201.
The nonresident earnings tax: a separate flat 0.5% on Yonkers wages
Nonresidents who work in Yonkers but live elsewhere instead pay a distinct flat 0.5% tax on wages earned in Yonkers specifically -- a completely different computation from the resident surcharge.
A comparatively favorable property tax rate
Despite the income-tax surcharge, Yonkers' own median effective property tax rate (~1.37%) runs genuinely below both the Westchester County average and the New York statewide median (~1.90%).
Key takeaways
- Yonkers residents pay a real 16.75% surcharge on their NY STATE tax liability -- not a flat wage rate.
- Nonresidents working in Yonkers pay a separate, flat 0.5% tax on Yonkers-source wages only.
- Yonkers' own effective property tax rate (~1.37%) runs genuinely below the statewide median.
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