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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. LATIMER, ZEBROWSKI, LAVINE, SCHIMEL -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. AMEDORE, McENENY, WRIGHT -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to increasing the amount on
which additional taxes are imposed for conveyances of real property
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1402-a of the tax law, as added
by chapter 61 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
(a) In addition to the tax imposed by section fourteen hundred two of
this article, a tax is hereby imposed on each conveyance of residential
real property or interest therein when the consideration for the entire
conveyance is [one] TWO million dollars or more. For purposes of this
section, residential real property shall include any premises that is or
may be used in whole or in part as a personal residence, and shall
include a one, two, or three-family house, an individual condominium
unit, or a cooperative apartment unit. The rate of such tax shall be one
percent of the consideration or part thereof attributable to the resi-
dential real property. Such tax shall be paid at the same time and in
the same manner as the tax imposed by section fourteen hundred two of
this article.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
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.
LBD00294-01-1