Several states are implementing new laws and regulations in 2025, ranging from tax cuts to controversial congestion pricing schemes. This article highlights some of the most notable changes, focusing on New York's congestion pricing and the ban on travel-size toiletries.
In the 1942 film 'Holiday Inn,' legendary crooner Bing Crosby describes the stroke of midnight on New Year’s as 'one minute to say goodbye before we say hello.' In 2025, Americans in several states around the country are 'saying hello' to many new laws and changes in tax codes. In West Virginia, for example, residents saw an automatic 2% personal income tax cut taking effect on New Year's Day.
'If anybody says there’s something that could drive more growth to West Virginia than that, you’re out of your mind,' outgoing Republican governor and Sen.-elect Jim Justice quipped of that particular policy change. However, other states’ residents may face more proverbially 'draconian' policies and regulations. Here's a look at some of them. NEW YORK 'Congestion pricing' The Empire State’s heavily-debated congestion pricing law will take effect on Sunday, Jan. 5. While Gov. Kathy Hochul and MTA Chair Janno Lieber have been supportive of the change, which charges the average driver crossing or entering Manhattan below Central Park a photo-enforced $9 toll, many New Yorkers remain outraged. HOCHUL SPURS BIPARTISAN OUTRAGE OVER CONGESTION PRICING 'Congestion pricing, the latest in a long string of tyrannical taxes, has been pressed forward through consistent opposition about the burden on New York families and workers,' several New York Republican federal lawmakers wrote in a December letter. Meanwhile, Democrats like State Sen. Andrew Gounardes of Bay Ridge had urged the congestion-pricing plan to begin 'immediately, before Trump can block it.' Lather up Visitors to one of the most popular tourism states in the country will no longer be welcomed by travel-sized shampoo and lotion bottles, as they will be prohibited come the New Year. The Empire State’s ban took effect on Jan. 1, while a similar ban in Illinois goes into practice on July 1 for larger hotels and Jan. 1, 2026, for smaller one
LAW TAXES CONGESTION PRICING TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS NEW YORK WEST VIRGINIA
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