Posted on 11/12/2022 3:01:03 PM PST by Impala64ssa
The Avon cosmetics conglomerate is shutting down its facility in the Village of Suffern after 136 years. The company plans to close at the end of 2024 and will begin laying off workers this coming February. There are currently 136 employees at the factory. At one point, there were more than 1,000 workers there. Mayor Michael Curley says this might not necessarily be such a bad thing due to the tax breaks that Avon receives on their property. "They made a deal years ago with the Village of Suffern, County of Rockland, school district and the town,” said Curley. “They threatened to leave our neighborhood unless we gave them a tax break. Our taxes we're receiving from this property is $166,000. We should be receiving $620,000. So, the taxpayers and the residents lost hundreds of thousands of dollars." Whoever ends up buying the piece of property will be required to pay the normal taxes.
I remember buying “cache” Avon perfume for my mother for Christmas from the Avon lady, maybe 1964. Part of the Americana I remember.
Democrat Curley owns a restaurant in the town called Curley’s Corner. Let’s see how his business goes the more employers he forces out of town, never mind tax revenue that he seems to be craving.
Avon
Rename it Snak23 or some such, and it will sell as well
as it ever did.
Nobody wants to buy from mom’s old brand.
Put it in malls under the new name.
Advert on Instagram and other sites.
Get yourself a pack of influencers.
Come on, get to work.
Suffern needs your company.
If they wanted to make perfume that actually attracts men they would make some that smells like Roast Beef, BBG pork, gun oil, or smoked sausage.
Expended gun powder...
LOL
True, I’m just not sure I want my wife to smell like a
firing range at the important moments.
Avon worth over $9.1 billion. They can afford the tax.
“Whoever ends up buying the piece of property will be required to pay the normal taxes.”
so how much property tax will be collected, Mayor Curley,if no one buys it?
Mayor Curley will reply back to you once he consults with Town Councilmen Larry and Moe.
Curley’s is on the Corner of Orange and Lafayette Av. Years ago it was Mugg’s Pub
Nobody can afford a tax designed to drive businesses out and that only goes into politicians’ and welfare recipients’ pockets, and nobody can afford the price increases due to such taxation rates.
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