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Senate Bill S6808

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the taxes imposed on distributors of beers and to directing revenue generated from such taxes be deposited to the credit of SUNY and CUNY

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2025-S6808 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Budget And Revenue
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§424 & 171-a, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7139
2021-2022: S1909
2023-2024: S352

2025-S6808 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing the taxes imposed on distributors of beers and to directing revenue generated from such taxes be deposited to the credit of SUNY and CUNY; increases such taxes to thirty cents per gallon.

2025-S6808 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6808 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6808
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to increasing the taxes imposed
   on distributors of beers and to directing revenue generated from  such
   taxes  to  be  deposited  to the credit of the state university of New
   York and the city university of New York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 1 of section 424 of the tax
 law, as amended by section 1 of part X-1 of chapter 57 of  the  laws  of
 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) [Fourteen] THIRTY cents per gallon upon beers;
   §  2.  Section 171-a of the tax law, as separately amended by chapters
 481 and 484 of the laws of 1981, is amended by adding a new  subdivision
 3 to read as follows:
   3.  NOTWITHSTANDING  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION  OR ANY OTHER
 PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, FIFTY PERCENT  OF  THE  TAXES  IMPOSED
 PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH  (A)  OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED
 TWENTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER, REDUCED BY  AN  AMOUNT  FOR  ADMINISTRATIVE
 COSTS,  SHALL  BE DEPOSITED, AS SUCH TAXES ARE RECEIVED, AS FOLLOWS: (A)
 HALF OF SUCH REVENUE SHALL BE DEPOSITED  TO  THE  CREDIT  OF  THE  STATE
 UNIVERSITY  OF NEW YORK; AND (B) HALF OF SUCH REVENUE SHALL BE DEPOSITED
 TO THE CREDIT OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK. THE AMOUNT FOR  ADMIN-
 ISTRATIVE  COSTS  SHALL  BE  DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER TO REPRESENT
 REASONABLE COSTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE  IN  ADMINIS-
 TERING,  COLLECTING,  DETERMINING  AND DISTRIBUTING SUCH TAXES.   OF THE
 TOTAL REVENUE COLLECTED OR RECEIVED UNDER SUCH SECTION OF THIS  CHAPTER,
 THE  COMPTROLLER  SHALL RETAIN IN THEIR HANDS SUCH AMOUNT AS THE COMMIS-
 SIONER MAY DETERMINE TO BE NECESSARY FOR REFUNDS OR REIMBURSEMENTS UNDER
 SUCH SECTION OF THIS CHAPTER OUT OF WHICH AMOUNT THE  COMPTROLLER  SHALL
 PAY  ANY  REFUNDS OR REIMBURSEMENTS TO WHICH TAXPAYERS SHALL BE ENTITLED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11262-01-5

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