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BILL NUMBER: S50435
TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the tax law, in relation to sales and compensating use
tax in Columbia county
PURPOSE :
This bill would allow Columbia County to adopt a local law to continue
to add an additional one percent of their sales tax to meet operating
costs of the county government.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :
Section one amends Section 1210 of the Tax Law to authorize Columbia
County to continue to add an additional one percent sales tax to the
present three percent rate until November 30, 2011.
Section two requires the county to allocate and distribute a portion
of the net collections to the City of Hudson and the rest of the
county in the same proportion that the county was allocating and
distributing its net collections from its three percent rate of sales
and use taxes.
EXISTING LAW :
Current law allows Columbia County to add an additional one percent to
their sales tax until November 30, 2009.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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435
Extraordinary Session
I N S E N A T E
June 23, 2009
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of the Governor) -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to sales and compensating use
tax in Columbia county
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Clause 21 of subparagraph (i) of the opening paragraph of
section 1210 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 247 of the laws of
2007, is amended to read as follows:
(21) the county of Columbia is hereby further authorized and empowered
to adopt and amend local laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such
taxes at a rate which is one percent additional to the three percent
rate authorized above in this paragraph for such county for the period
beginning March first, nineteen hundred ninety-five, and ending November
thirtieth, two thousand [nine] ELEVEN;
S 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if the
county of Columbia imposes the additional one percent rate of sales and
compensating use taxes authorized by the opening paragraph of section
1210 of the tax law, as extended by section one of this act, for any
portion of the period during which such county is so authorized to
impose such additional one percent rate of such taxes, then the county
of Columbia shall allocate and distribute quarterly to the city of
Hudson and the area in such county outside such city the same proportion
of net collections attributable to such additional one percent rate of
such taxes as such county was allocating and distributing the net
collections from such county's three percent rate of such taxes on Janu-
ary 28, 1995, and such portion of net collections attributable to such
additional one percent rate of such taxes shall be allocated and
distributed to the towns and villages in such county in the same manner
as the net collections attributable to such county's three percent rate
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08963-01-9
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