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Assembly Bill A7976

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides an exemption from the tax on sales and the compensating use tax for certain items purchased for hurricane or emergency preparedness

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2011-A7976 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8680
2013-2014: A8475

2011-A7976 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a one week exemption from June 24, 2012 through June 30, 2012 and for every last seven days of every June thereafter from the tax on sales and the compensating use tax for certain items purchased for hurricane or emergency preparedness.

2011-A7976 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7976

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Ways and Means

AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law, in relation to exempting from the tax on
  sales and the compensating use tax certain items purchased for  hurri-
  cane or emergency preparedness

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law  is  amended
by adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
  (44)  FOR  THE  PERIOD  COMMENCING  JUNE  TWENTY-FOURTH,  TWO THOUSAND
TWELVE, AND ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE,  AND  FOR  EVERY
LAST  SEVEN  DAYS  OF  EVERY JUNE THEREAFTER THE FOLLOWING HURRICANE AND
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS ITEMS:
  (I) ARTIFICIAL ICE, BLUE ICE, ICE PACKS, AND REUSABLE  ICE,  BATTERIES
(EXCLUDING  AUTOMOBILE  OR  BOAT  BATTERIES) INCLUDING AAA, AA, C, AND D
CELL, SIX  AND  NINE  VOLT,  AND  CELL  PHONE  BATTERIES,  ANY  PORTABLE
SELF-POWERED  LIGHT  SOURCES  INCLUDING  FLASHLIGHTS, LANTERNS, AND GLOW
STICKS, TARPAULINS, PLASTIC SHEETING, PLASTIC  DROP  CLOTHS,  AND  OTHER
FLEXIBLE  WATERPROOF SHEETING, BUNGEE CORDS, ROPE, GROUND ANCHOR SYSTEMS
OR TIE DOWN KITS, RATCHET STRAPS, DUCT TAPE, CARBON MONOXIDE  DETECTORS,
SMOKE  DETECTORS,  FIRE  EXTINGUISHERS,  GAS  OR  DIESEL  FUEL  TANKS OR
CONTAINERS, WATER STORAGE CONTAINERS, NON-ELECTRIC FOOD STORAGE COOLERS,
BOTTLED WATER, MANUAL CAN OPENERS, PORTABLE SELF-POWERED RADIOS (INCLUD-
ING SELF-POWERED RADIOS WITH ELECTRICAL POWER CAPABILITY), TWO-WAY RADI-
OS, WEATHER BAND RADIOS AND NATIONAL OCEANIC  AND  ATMOSPHERIC  ADMINIS-
TRATION  WEATHER RADIOS, STORM SHUTTER DEVICES, CELL PHONE CHARGERS, AND
FIRST  AID  KITS  FOR  WHICH  THE  RECEIPT  OR  CONSIDERATION  GIVEN  OR
CONTRACTED TO BE GIVEN IS SIXTY DOLLARS OR LESS PER ITEM; AND
  (II)  PORTABLE  GENERATORS AND GENERATOR POWER CORDS AND INVERTERS AND
INVERTER POWER CABLES FOR WHICH THE RECEIPT OR  CONSIDERATION  GIVEN  OR
CONTRACTED TO BE GIVEN IS ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS OR LESS PER ITEM.
  S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2012 and shall apply to tax
years commencing on or after such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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