But state legislators, fed up with the city's failure to enact a fiscal plan and worried lest it impose an unwelcome commuter tax, have intervened.

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The commuter tax break.

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It turns out the retroactive commuter transit parity tax break Congress passed in January as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act for 2012 is bittersweet.

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