纽约市最大的企业权益倡导组织周二发布的一份分析报告称，纽约市正因德克萨斯州亲商政策而流失数千个工作岗位，而市长佐兰·马姆达尼推动提高企业税的举措只会加速这一趋势。
纽约市合作组织发布的这份报告得出结论：德克萨斯州的低税收、亲增长政策正在成功吸引企业，并将工作岗位从那些对纽约市高税收、不利于商业发展的华尔街公司转移走。
该合作组织在报告中指出：“纽约在税收竞争力方面已在全美排名垫底，并且在小企业创办和发展方面也一直位列倒数。”
马姆达尼已提议将纽约的企业税率从7.25%提高到11.5%。
如果州长凯西·霍楚尔和州议会批准上调，纽约市的最高综合边际企业所得税率（包括其他税费，例如大都会运输署的企业附加费）将从17.44%升至22.48%。
与此同时，德克萨斯州不征收企业所得税或州所得税，仅征收0.75%的特许经营税。
报告指出，与诉讼成风的纽约相比，孤星之州（德克萨斯州的别称）的法院对商业利益更为友好，而且在德克萨斯州注册公司和开设律师事务所也更为便捷。
因此，该合作组织表示，德克萨斯州正在蚕食纽约作为美国资本主义之都的霸主地位，这并不令人意外。
报告发现：
2024年，德克萨斯州将超过纽约，成为金融服务业（不包括保险和房地产）从业人员最多的州。
过去十年间，共有23家公司将总部从纽约迁至德州，数量仅次于加利福尼亚州的公司，而加州距离德州更近。
摩根大通目前在德州的员工人数超过其他任何州，甚至超过了其总部所在地纽约州。这家银行业巨头去年宣布将在沃斯堡新建一个办事处，预计到2027年员工人数将翻一番。
富国银行于2025年在达拉斯开设了新的园区，预计将增加1500名员工的办公容量。
2025年，德州的金融服务业招聘数量超过纽约，职位发布数量比纽约多出9%。
尽管纽约的金融服务业仍然更具生产力——2024年其地区生产总值达到3300亿美元，比德州高出71%——但德州的金融服务业在过去十年中增长更快，其地区生产总值增长了121%，而纽约仅为72%。
德克萨斯州获准成立自己的证券交易所，预计将于2026年底前开业，其定位是比纽约证券交易所和纳斯达克更利于发行人、成本更低的交易所。
“德克萨斯州的成功并非仅仅依靠单一的税收手段——它正在执行一项协调一致的多维度战略来吸引就业和资本，而纽约却落入了他们的圈套，”德克萨斯州合作组织首席执行官史蒂夫·富洛普表示。“我们今天发布的报告详细阐述了我们究竟是如何落败的……事实胜于雄辩。”
马姆达尼周二表示，如果霍楚尔和州议会不提高富人的所得税和企业税，他将不得不提高房产税。
霍楚尔正在寻求今年秋季的连任，她表示反对增税。
富洛普说，“在经济增长决策日益灵活的当下，税收政策不能孤立地看待。纽约只顾着谈论税收，却忽略了其他州正在采取的更宏大的政策。”
他说：“你不能为了征税而征税。这种向州长施压（要求增税）的做法是错误的。我当然理解预算方面的压力，但这种做法忽略了更大的竞争现实，从长远来看成本更高。”
New York is losing thousands of jobs to pro-business Texas, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to raise corporate taxes would only accelerate the exodus, an analysis released Tuesday by the Big Apple’s top corporate advocacy group claims.
The report issued by the Partnership for the City of New York concludes that the Lone Star State’s low-tax, pro-growth policies are successfully recruiting corporations and diverting jobs from Wall Street firms fed up with Gotham’s high-tax, business-hostile policies.
“New York is already ranked last nationally for tax competitiveness and is consistently ranked among the bottom states for starting a small business and for small business growth,” the partnership’s report said.
Mamdani has proposed increasing New York’s corporate rate from 7.25% to 11.5%.
New York City’s top combined marginal corporate income tax rate — which includes other levies such as an MTA corporate surcharge — would rise from 17.44% to 22.48%, if Gov. Kathy Hochul and the legislature approve a hike.
Texas, meanwhile, has no corporate or state income tax and imposes only a modest 0.75 franchise tax.
Courts in the Lone Star State are also more friendly to business interests, compared to litigation-happy New York, and it’s easier to incorporate and open firms there, the report noted.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, the Partnership said, that Texas is chipping away at New York’s preeminence as the capital of US capitalism.
The report found that:
In 2024, Texas surpassed New York as the state with the most financial services employees, excluding insurance and real estate.
23 companies relocated their headquarters from New York to Texas over the last decade, second only to firms from California, which is much closer to the Lone Star State.
JPMorgan Chase now employs more people in Texas than in any other state, including its home state of New York. The banking giant announced last year a new Fort Worth office that will double employee capacity by 2027.
Wells Fargo opened a new Dallas campus in 2025, increasing office capacity by 1,500 employees.
Financial services recruitment in Texas surpassed New York’s with 9% more job postings in 2025.
While New York’s financial services industry still remains more productive — generating $330 billion in gross regional product in 2024, 71% more than Texas — Texas’ financial services sector grew faster over the decade, with GRP rising 121% compared to New York’s 72%.
Texas received approval to launch its own stock exchange, slated to open by the end of 2026, positioning itself as a more issuer-friendly and lower-cost exchange than the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
“Texas isn’t winning because of one tax lever — it’s executing a coordinated, multi-dimensional strategy to attract jobs and capital and NY is falling into their trap,” said Partnership CEO Steve Fulop. “Our report from TODAY outlines what’s actually happening with how we are losing … facts matter here.”
Mamdani on Tuesday said he’d have to raise property taxesif Hochul and the legislature don’t boost income taxes on the rich and corporate taxes.
Hochul, who is seeking re-election this fall, said she opposes tax increases.
“At a moment when growth decisions are increasingly mobile, tax policy cannot be viewed in isolation. New York is missing the bigger picture of what other states are deliberately doing as we just talk taxes,” Fulop said.
“You can’t just tax people for the sake of taxing people,” he said. “This approach to pressure the governor [to raise taxes] is a mistake. I certainly understand the pressure around the budget, but this approach misses the larger competitive reality and will cost more in the long run.”
