S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1253
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the definition of film zone
and the exclusion of the film zone from the additional empire state
film production credit
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (a) of section 24 of the tax
law, as amended by section 2 of part M of chapter 59 of the laws of
2022, is amended to read as follows:
(5) For the period two thousand fifteen through two thousand twenty-
nine, in addition to the amount of credit established in paragraph two
of this subdivision, a taxpayer shall be allowed a credit equal to the
product (or pro rata share of the product, in the case of a member of a
partnership) of ten percent and the amount of wages or salaries paid to
individuals directly employed (excluding those employed as writers,
directors, music directors, producers and performers, including back-
ground actors with no scripted lines) by a qualified film production
company or a qualified independent film production company for services
performed by those individuals in one of the counties OR AREAS specified
in this paragraph in connection with a qualified film with a minimum
budget of five hundred thousand dollars. For purposes of this additional
credit, the services must be performed in one or more of the following
counties OR AREAS : Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chau-
tauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Dutch-
ess, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer,
Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Niagara,
Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam,
Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, St.
Lawrence, Steuben, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washing-
ton, Wayne, Wyoming, [or] Yates, OR ANY AREA IN THE COUNTIES OF ROCKLAND
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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