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Assembly Bill A1842

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides for an additional personal tax exemption for taxpayers who care for certain family members 70 or over

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2015-A1842 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง616, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6624
2011-2012: A2310
2013-2014: A1404
2017-2018: A652

2015-A1842 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides an additional personal income tax exemption for an individual taxpayer who provides more than one-half of the support for a parent, stepparent, immediate family member or sibling who is 70 years of age or over and who resides with the taxpayer.

2015-A1842 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1842

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER,  ZEBROWSKI, TITONE, HOOPER, ABBATE,
  SCHIMMINGER, GALEF, COLTON, CURRAN, WALTER,  RAIA,  LOPEZ,  TENNEY  --
  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A.   BARCLAY, CERETTO, CROUCH, FINCH --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in  relation  to  providing  an  additional
  personal  income tax exemption to an individual taxpayer who cares for
  a parent or immediate family member, seventy years of  age  or  older,
  residing in the household of the taxpayer

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

  Section 1. Section 616 of the tax law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
subsection (c) to read as follows:
  (C)  ADDITIONAL EXEMPTION.   IN ADDITION TO THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED FOR
IN SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION  FOR  TAXABLE  YEARS  BEGINNING  AFTER
JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  SIXTEEN,  A RESIDENT INDIVIDUAL SHALL BE
ALLOWED AN ADDITIONAL NEW YORK EXEMPTION OF  ONE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  FOR
EACH DEPENDENT WHO IS OF THE AGE OF SEVENTY OR OLDER, WHOSE GROSS INCOME
FOR  THE  TAXABLE YEAR IS NOT MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, OR IN THE
CASE OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE WHERE INCOME  IS  DETERMINED  JOINTLY,  WHOSE
GROSS  INCOME  IS NOT MORE THAN SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. FOR
THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION THE TERM "DEPENDENT" SHALL MEAN  ANY  OF
THE  FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS FOR WHOM OVER ONE-HALF OF THE SUPPORT FOR THE
TAXABLE YEAR WAS RECEIVED FROM THE TAXPAYER, AND WHO HAVE RESIDED IN THE
PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE OF THE TAXPAYER FOR MORE THAN NINE  MONTHS  OF  SUCH
TAXABLE YEAR:
  (1) IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER OR SIBLING OF THE TAXPAYER;
  (2) THE MOTHER OR FATHER OF THE TAXPAYER; OR
  (3) THE STEPMOTHER OR STEPFATHER OF THE TAXPAYER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01565-01-5


              

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