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Assembly Bill A4919

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Establishes business franchise and personal income tax credits for public safety communications surcharges paid by certain small businesses which do not have a landline telephone

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2015-A4919 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง210-B & 606, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9825
2017-2018: A6615

2015-A4919 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes business franchise and personal income tax credits for public safety communications surcharges paid by certain small businesses which do not have a landline telephone.

2015-A4919 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4919

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 9, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing business fran-
  chise tax and personal income tax credit for the amount of the  public
  safety  communications  surcharges  paid by certain taxpayers that are
  small businesses

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

  Section  1.  Section  210-B  of the tax law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 28 to read as follows:
  28. PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS SURCHARGE CREDIT.  (A)  ALLOWANCE  OF
CREDIT.  A  TAXPAYER  THAT IS A SMALL BUSINESS WITH A PERMANENT BUSINESS
ADDRESS WITHIN  THE  STATE,  FOR  WHICH  ITS  MOBILE  TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SERVICE,  AS  DEFINED  IN  PARAGRAPH  TWENTY-FOUR  OF SUBDIVISION (B) OF
SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER,  IS  THE  PRIMARY  MEANS  OF
CONTACTING  SUCH  SMALL  BUSINESS, AND SUCH SMALL BUSINESS DOES NOT HAVE
LANDLINE TELEPHONE SERVICE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE FIVE  OF
THE  PUBLIC  SERVICE  LAW,  SHALL  BE  ALLOWED  A CREDIT AGAINST THE TAX
IMPOSED BY THIS ARTICLE EQUAL TO THE SUM OF THE PUBLIC  SAFETY  COMMUNI-
CATIONS  SURCHARGES  PAID  BY  THE TAXPAYER AS A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
CUSTOMER DURING THE TAXABLE YEAR, PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED EIGHT-
Y-SIX-F OF THIS CHAPTER, TO THE EXTENT SUCH SURCHARGES  ARE  RELATED  TO
THE TAXPAYER'S SMALL BUSINESS.
  (B)  DEFINITION.  THE TERM "SMALL BUSINESS" SHALL, FOR THE PURPOSES OF
THIS SUBDIVISION, MEAN A BUSINESS WHICH IS RESIDENT IN THIS STATE, INDE-
PENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED, NOT DOMINANT IN ITS FIELD AND EMPLOYS  ONE
HUNDRED OR LESS PERSONS.
  (C)  APPLICATION  OF CREDIT. THE CREDIT ALLOWED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION
FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR SHALL NOT REDUCE THE TAX DUE FOR SUCH YEAR TO  LESS
THAN  THE  AMOUNT  PRESCRIBED  IN  PARAGRAPH  (D)  OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
SECTION TWO HUNDRED TEN OF THIS ARTICLE. HOWEVER, IF THE AMOUNT OF CRED-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08627-01-5
              

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