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Assembly Bill A4194

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts pet food from sales and compensating use taxes

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2025-A4194 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7089
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A6748
2019-2020: A3816
2021-2022: A9698, S9526
2023-2024: A4244, S5044

2025-A4194 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts pet food from sales and compensating use taxes.

2025-A4194 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4194
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation  to  exempting  pet  food  from
   sales and compensating 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 47 to read as follows:
   (47) PET FOOD. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE TERM "PET FOOD"
 MEANS  FOOD  WHICH  IS PREPARED AND DISTRIBUTED FOR CONSUMPTION BY PETS.
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, "PET" MEANS ANY DOMESTICATED  ANIMAL
 NORMALLY MAINTAINED IN OR NEAR THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE OWNER THEREOF.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first day of a sales tax quar-
 terly period, as described in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the tax
 law, next commencing at least 60 days after this act shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08436-01-5

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