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Senate Bill S4270

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes an exemption from the state personal income tax for certain veterans seventy-five years of age or older

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2017-S4270 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §601, Tax L

2017-S4270 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a total exemption from the state personal income tax for certain veterans of the armed forces of the United States seventy-five years of age or older with an annual total gross income of less than $40,000.

2017-S4270 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4270 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4270
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 7, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to  establishing  an  exemption
   from  the  state personal income tax for certain veterans seventy-five
   years of age or older

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  601  of  the  tax law is amended by adding a new
 subsection (g-1) to read as follows:
   (G-1) EXEMPT VETERANS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF  LAW  TO
 THE CONTRARY, A TAXPAYER SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM THE TAX UNDER THIS ARTICLE
 IF  HE  OR SHE IS A VETERAN OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES, AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION THIRTEEN-A OF THE GENERAL CONSTRUCTION LAW,  WITH  AN
 ANNUAL  TOTAL  GROSS  INCOME  OF LESS THAN FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND IS
 SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
 years beginning on or after the first of  January  next  succeeding  the
 date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06377-01-7

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