Senate Bill S2340

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Clarifies an exemption from sales and compensating use taxes

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A1887 - Signed by Governor


  • 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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2013-S2340 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1887
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง1115 & 1210, Tax L

2013-S2340 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies an exemption from sales and compensating use taxes.

2013-S2340 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S2340 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2340

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 16, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
  cations

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to clarifying an exemption from
  sales and compensating use taxes

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (hh) of section 1115 of the tax law,  as  added
by chapter 406 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
  [(hh)]  (II)  Receipts from the retail sale of commercial solar energy
systems equipment and of the service of installing such systems shall be
exempt from taxes imposed by sections eleven  hundred  five  and  eleven
hundred  [eleven] TEN of this article. For the purposes of this subdivi-
sion, "commercial solar energy systems equipment" shall mean an arrange-
ment or combination of components installed upon  non-residential  prem-
ises  that utilize solar radiation to produce energy designed to provide
heating, cooling, hot water  and/or  electricity.  Such  arrangement  or
components shall not include equipment that is part of a non-solar ener-
gy system.
  S 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the tax law, as
amended  by  chapter  406  of  the  laws  of 2012, is amended to read as
follows:
  (1) Either, all of the taxes described in article twenty-eight of this
chapter, at the same uniform rate, as to which taxes all  provisions  of
the  local  laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such taxes shall be
identical, except as to rate and except as otherwise provided, with  the
corresponding  provisions  in  such  article twenty-eight, including the
definition and exemption provisions of  such  article,  so  far  as  the
provisions  of  such  article twenty-eight can be made applicable to the
taxes imposed by such city or  county  and  with  such  limitations  and
special  provisions  as are set forth in this article. The taxes author-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07471-01-3
              

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