Senate Bill S2471

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Makes seed purchased to grow food for personal consumption exempt from sales and use taxes

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S2471 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S836
2013-2014: S2247
2015-2016: S3417
2017-2018: S531
2019-2020: S993

2009-S2471 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes seed purchased to grow food for personal consumption exempt from sales and use taxes.

2009-S2471 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2471 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2471

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 20, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to granting a sales and compen-
  sating use tax exemption for the purchase of seeds to be cultivated to
  grow food for the purchaser's own or family consumption

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended
by adding a new paragraph 1-a to read as follows:
  (1-A) SEEDS WHICH WHEN CULTIVATED PRODUCE  FOOD,  WHEN  THE  PURCHASER
THEREOF WILL USE THE FOOD PRODUCED THEREFROM FOR HIS OR HER OWN PERSONAL
OR  FAMILY'S  HUMAN  CONSUMPTION.  THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY
SEEDS RESOLD BY THE PURCHASER THEREOF.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07736-01-9


              

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