S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6580
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to reducing certain commercial rent taxes for premises occu-
pied by certain retail and food services businesses
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision h of section 11-704 of the
administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law
number 63 for the year 1997, is amended to read as follows:
(2) In the case of any taxable premises located in the borough of
Manhattan south of the center line of ninety-sixth street, the base rent
for such premises shall be reduced by (i) fifteen percent for the period
beginning March first, nineteen hundred ninety-six and ending May thir-
ty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, (ii) twenty-five percent for the
period beginning June first, nineteen hundred ninety-six and ending
August thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, and (iii) thirty-
five percent for periods beginning September first, nineteen hundred
ninety-eight and thereafter, such reduction to be made after all other
exemptions and deductions authorized by this chapter have been taken,
EXCEPT THAT THE BASE RENT FOR A TAXABLE PREMISES WHICH IS OCCUPIED BY A
RETAIL BUSINESS OR FOOD SERVICES BUSINESS WITH AN ANNUALIZED BASE RENT
OF LESS THAN ONE MILLION DOLLARS SHALL BE REDUCED BY ONE HUNDRED
PERCENT.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July 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.
LBD01957-01-5
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