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Senate Bill S7566

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts the sale of fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, heat sensors and carbon monoxide detectors from sales and use taxes

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

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2017-S7566 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L

2017-S7566 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts the sale of fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, heat sensors and carbon monoxide detectors for residential use only from state sales and compensating use taxes.

2017-S7566 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7566 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7566
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 25, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting the sale  of  fire
   extinguishers,  smoke  alarms, heat sensors and carbon monoxide detec-
   tors for residential use from sales and use taxes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended
 by adding a new paragraph 45 To read as follows:
   (45) FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, SMOKE ALARMS, HEAT SENSORS AND CARBON  MONOX-
 IDE DETECTORS FOR RESIDENTIAL USE ONLY.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take effect on the first day of the sales tax
 quarterly period, as described in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the
 tax law, next commencing at least 90 days  after  this  act  shall  have
 become  a  law and shall apply in accordance with the applicable transi-
 tional provisions of sections 1106 and 1217 of the tax law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05436-03-8

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