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Assembly Bill A5605

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for a personal income tax credit for resident taxpayers who invest in minority-owned or women owned businesses

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2009-A5605 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง606, Tax L

2009-A5605 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for a personal income tax credit for resident taxpayers who invest in minority-owned or women owned businesses; credit shall be thirty percent of the first thirty thousand dollars invested in such businesses.

2009-A5605 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  5605

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to  providing  for  a  personal
  income  tax credit for resident taxpayers who invest in minority-owned
  or women owned businesses

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

  Section  1.  Section  606  of  the  tax law is amended by adding a new
subsection (qq) to read as follows:
  (QQ) TAX CREDIT FOR PERSONS INVESTING IN MINORITY-OWNED OR WOMEN OWNED
BUSINESSES. (1) ALLOWANCE OF CREDIT. A TAXPAYER SHALL BE ALLOWED A CRED-
IT, TO BE COMPUTED AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED, AGAINST THE TAX  IMPOSED  BY
THIS ARTICLE, FOR INVESTING IN MINORITY-OWNED OR WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES.
THE  AMOUNT  OF  THE  CREDIT SHALL BE THIRTY PERCENT OF THE FIRST THIRTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS INVESTED IN MINORITY-OWNED  AND/OR  WOMEN  OWNED  BUSI-
NESSES.
  (2)  APPLICATION  OF CREDIT. THE CREDIT UNDER THIS SUBSECTION SHALL BE
ALLOWED AGAINST THE TAXES IMPOSED BY THIS ARTICLE FOR THE  TAXABLE  YEAR
REDUCED  BY THE CREDITS PERMITTED BY THIS ARTICLE. IF THE CREDIT EXCEEDS
THE TAX AS SO REDUCED, THE TAXPAYER SHALL RECEIVE, AND THE  COMPTROLLER,
SUBJECT  TO  A CERTIFICATE OF THE COMMISSIONER, SHALL PAY AS AN OVERPAY-
MENT, WITHOUT INTEREST, THE AMOUNT OF SUCH EXCESS.
  (3)  DEFINITIONS.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THE  CREDIT  DESCRIBED  IN  THIS
SUBSECTION:
  (I)  "MINORITY-OWNED  OR  WOMEN  OWNED BUSINESS" SHALL MEAN A BUSINESS
ENTERPRISE, INCLUDING A SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP, PARTNERSHIP OR  CORPORATION
THAT  IS:   (A) AT LEAST FIFTY-ONE PERCENT OWNED BY ONE OR MORE MINORITY
GROUP MEMBERS AND/OR WOMEN MEMBERS; (B)  AN  ENTERPRISE  IN  WHICH  SUCH
MINORITY  OR WOMEN OWNERSHIP IS REAL, SUBSTANTIAL AND CONTINUING; (C) AN
ENTERPRISE IN WHICH SUCH MINORITY OR WOMEN OWNERSHIP HAS  AND  EXERCISES
THE AUTHORITY TO CONTROL INDEPENDENTLY THE DAY-TO-DAY BUSINESS DECISIONS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08778-01-9
              

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