Senate Bill S6393

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the tax on alcohol

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S6393 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §424, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3123
2015-2016: S1553
2017-2018: S3427
2019-2020: S4529
2021-2022: S4673
2023-2024: S5694

2011-S6393 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing the tax on alcohol and provides that one hundred percent of the taxes, interest, penalties and fees collected or received by the commissioner shall be allocated to the general fund.

2011-S6393 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S6393 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  6393

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 3, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to increasing the tax on  alco-
  hol

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

  Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of subdivision 1
of section 424 of the tax law, paragraphs  (a),  (b),  (c)  and  (d)  as
amended  by  section  1  of  part X-1 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009,
paragraph (e) as amended by chapter 190 of the laws of  1990  and  para-
graph (f) as amended by chapter 508 of the laws of 1993, are amended and
a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows:
  (a) [Fourteen cents] TWENTY-FOUR CENTS per gallon upon beers;
  (b) [Thirty cents] FIFTY-ONE CENTS per gallon upon still wines, except
cider containing more than three and two-tenths per centum of alcohol by
volume,  upon  which  the  tax  shall  be  [three and seventy-nine] FOUR
hundredths cents per gallon;
  (c) [Thirty cents] FIFTY-ONE CENTS per gallon upon artificially carbo-
nated sparkling wines, except artificially  carbonated  sparkling  cider
containing  more  than  three  and  two-tenths  per centum of alcohol by
volume, upon which the  tax  shall  be  [three  and  seventy-nine]  FOUR
hundredths cents per gallon;
  (d) [Thirty  cents]  FIFTY-ONE CENTS per gallon upon natural sparkling
wines, except natural sparkling cider containing  more  than  three  and
two-tenths  per centum of alcohol by volume, upon which the tax shall be
[three and seventy-nine] FOUR hundredths cents per gallon;
  (e) [Sixty-seven] ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-THREE  cents  per  liter  upon
liquors  containing  not  more than twenty-four per centum of alcohol by
volume except liquors containing not more than two per centum of alcohol
by volume, upon which the tax shall be [one cent] TWO CENTS  per  liter;
and
  (f)  [One dollar] TWO DOLLARS and [seventy] TWENTY-SIX cents per liter
upon all other liquors; when sold or used within this state, except when

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

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