Assembly Bill A5881

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain counties, cities and school districts to impose up to a four percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes; repealer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A5881 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §1210 op¶ sub¶¶ (i), (ii) & (iii), §1210-E, §1224 subs (d) - (r), (t) - (gg), amd §§1210, 1224 & 1262-s, add §§1262-u, 1262-v, 1262-w & 1265, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7713
2015-2016: A2387
2017-2018: A3508
2021-2022: A6417

2019-A5881 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain counties and cities to impose up to a four percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes; preserves the authority of certain municipalities to impose such taxes at rates in excess of four percent.

2019-A5881 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5881
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, LUPARDO, GUNTHER, KOLB,
   RAIA,  BARCLAY,  BRABENEC  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. CROUCH,
   GIGLIO, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, PALMESANO, PAULIN,  RA,  RIVERA,
   SIMON,  THIELE  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and
   Means

 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the authority of counties to
   impose sales and compensating use taxes pursuant to the  authority  of
   article  29  of such law; and to repeal certain provisions of sections
   1210 and 1224 and section 1210-E of such law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph (i) of the opening paragraph of section 1210
 of the tax law is REPEALED and a new subparagraph (i) is added  to  read
 as follows:
   (I)  WITH  RESPECT  TO A CITY OF ONE MILLION OR MORE AND THE FOLLOWING
 COUNTIES (1) ANY SUCH CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE IS
 HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND EMPOWERED TO ADOPT AND  AMEND  LOCAL  LAWS,  ORDI-
 NANCES  OR RESOLUTIONS IMPOSING SUCH TAXES IN ANY SUCH CITY, AT THE RATE
 OF FOUR AND ONE-HALF PERCENT;
   (2) THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THAT IMPOSE TAXES DESCRIBED IN  SUBDIVISION
 (A)  OF THIS SECTION AT THE RATE OF THREE PERCENT AS AUTHORIZED ABOVE IN
 THIS PARAGRAPH FOR SUCH  COUNTIES  ARE  HEREBY  FURTHER  AUTHORIZED  AND
 EMPOWERED  TO  ADOPT  AND  AMEND  LOCAL LAWS, ORDINANCES, OR RESOLUTIONS
 IMPOSING SUCH TAXES DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION AT  THE
 FOLLOWING  ADDITIONAL  RATES, IN QUARTER PERCENT INCREMENTS, WHICH RATES
 ARE ADDITIONAL TO THE THREE PERCENT RATE AUTHORIZED ABOVE IN THIS  PARA-
 GRAPH,  AND,  IN THE CASE OF A COUNTY AUTHORIZED TO IMPOSE MORE THAN ONE
 ADDITIONAL RATE, ALSO IN ADDITION TO EACH OTHER, FOR EACH  SUCH  COUNTY,
 PROVIDED  THAT (A) THE COUNTY OF ROCKLAND MAY IMPOSE ADDITIONAL RATES OF
 FIVE-EIGHTHS PERCENT AND THREE-EIGHTHS PERCENT, IN LIEU OF IMPOSING SUCH
 ADDITIONAL RATE IN QUARTER PERCENT INCREMENTS; (B) THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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