S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1397
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 29, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. MAZIARZ, BONACIC, DeFRANCISCO, FLANAGAN, GOLDEN,
O. JOHNSON, LARKIN, MORAHAN, SEWARD, VOLKER, WINNER -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Investigations and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting distributions from
individual retirement accounts and individual retirement annuities
from state personal income taxation when such distributions are used
to purchase long-term health care insurance
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by
adding a new paragraph 3-d to read as follows:
(3-D) DISTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED BY AN INDIVIDUAL, NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED
PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH THREE OR THREE-A OF THIS SUBSECTION, TO THE EXTENT
INCLUDABLE IN GROSS INCOME FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, WHICH ARE
ATTRIBUTABLE TO PERSONAL SERVICES PERFORMED BY SUCH INDIVIDUAL FROM
EMPLOYMENT, WHICH ARISE (I) FROM AN EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP OR
(II) FROM CONTRIBUTIONS TO A RETIREMENT PLAN WHICH ARE DEDUCTIBLE FOR
FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, TO THE EXTENT SUCH DISTRIBUTIONS ARE USED
DURING THE TAXABLE YEAR TO PURCHASE A POLICY OF LONG-TERM CARE INSUR-
ANCE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN OF THE INSURANCE
LAW, FOR SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR A DEPENDENT OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL. SUCH
DISTRIBUTIONS SHALL INCLUDE DISTRIBUTIONS FROM AN INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT
ACCOUNT OR AN INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ANNUITY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION FOUR
HUNDRED EIGHT OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AND DISTRIBUTIONS FROM
SELF-EMPLOYED INDIVIDUAL AND OWNER-EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLANS WHICH QUAL-
IFY UNDER SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
years commencing on January first in the year in which this act shall
take effect and all subsequent taxable years.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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