S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 28, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. MAISEL, MILLER, STEVENSON -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. CROUCH, GOODELL, JACOBS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to limiting the tax imposed on
refinanced mortgages to the difference between the total indebtedness
secured by the new mortgage and the remaining indebtedness secured by
the former mortgage
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 250 of the tax
law, as amended by section 1 of part Q of chapter 60 of the laws of
2004, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Where all or part of the indebtedness secured by a mortgage of
real property within any city in the state having a population of one
million or more has been paid and new funds are advanced or re-advanced
which are to be secured by such mortgage, OR BY A NEW MORTGAGE WHICH
SECURES THE BALANCE OF INDEBTEDNESS REMAINING UNPAID UNDER THE FORMER
MORTGAGE PLUS ALL NEW FUNDS ADVANCED OR RE-ADVANCED, the contract or
agreement by which such funds are advanced or re-advanced shall be
deemed a mortgage of real property for purposes of this article, and
shall be taxable as such upon the amount of such new funds, OR UPON THE
DIFFERENCE IN AMOUNTS BETWEEN THE TOTAL INDEBTEDNESS SECURED BY THE NEW
MORTGAGE AND THE REMAINING INDEBTEDNESS WHICH HAD BEEN SECURED BY THE
FORMER MORTGAGE, except as otherwise provided in section two hundred
fifty-three-b of this article.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply to the
calculation of amount of tax due on mortgages executed on and after such
date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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