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June 18, 2012
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Englebright)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring the commissioner
of taxation and finance to issue an annual report disclosing the
aggregate amount claimed on certain tax credits for the preceding
state fiscal year
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 171 of the tax law is amended by adding a new
subdivision twenty-ninth to read as follows:
TWENTY-NINTH. ANNUALLY, NO LATER THAN DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, ISSUE A
REPORT DISCLOSING, FOR EACH CREDIT AUTHORIZED BY THIS CHAPTER THAT IS
CLAIMED BY AT LEAST THREE TAXPAYERS, THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT CLAIMED ON
RETURNS AND REPORTS FILED FOR TAXABLE YEARS ENDING DURING THE IMMEDIATE-
LY PRECEDING STATE FISCAL YEAR. WHEN DETERMINING WHETHER A CREDIT HAS
BEEN CLAIMED BY AT LEAST THREE TAXPAYERS, TAXPAYERS CLAIMING A PRO-RATA
SHARE OF A CREDIT THAT HAS BEEN REPORTED BY AN ENTITY WHICH IS NOT
SUBJECT TO TAX ON AMOUNTS DISTRIBUTED TO ITS BENEFICIAL OWNERS, OR IS
EXEMPT FROM ENTITY-LEVEL TAXATION SHALL BE DISREGARDED AND THE REPORT OF
THE ENTITY SHALL BE COUNTED. SUCH REPORTING REQUIREMENT SHALL BE IN
ADDITION TO ANY OTHER REPORTING REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED BY THIS CHAPTER.
FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, STATE FISCAL YEAR SHALL HAVE THE SAME
MEANING AS SECTION THREE OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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