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Senate Bill S7298

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides sales tax exemption for reduced portion and cost food sales to senior citizens in restaurants and other establishments

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Aging Committee

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2009-S7298 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2872
Current Committee:
Senate Aging
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1105, Tax L

2009-S7298 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides sales tax exemption for food sold in reduced portions at reduced prices to persons 65 years of age or over at a restaurant, cafeteria or other establishment.

2009-S7298 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7298 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7298

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 29, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting certain food sales
  to senior citizens from sales tax

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (ii) of subdivision (d) of section 1105 of the
tax law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (C) to read as follows:
  (C) FOOD OR DRINK SOLD IN REDUCED PORTIONS AND AT REDUCED  COST  TO  A
PERSON  SIXTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  AGE OR OVER AT A RESTAURANT, CAFETERIA OR
OTHER ESTABLISHMENT IN THIS STATE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.








 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09626-01-9

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