Bill Text: NY A01369 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a small business tax credit for the employment of disabled persons.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)

Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-07 - tabled [A01369 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1369
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CUSICK, SIMANOWITZ, LUPARDO, McDONALD, FINCH,
          CROUCH, BLANKENBUSH, COLTON, SEPULVEDA, MALLIOTAKIS, WEPRIN, HARRIS --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a  small  busi-
          ness tax credit for the employment of disabled persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 49 to read as follows:
     3    49.  Small  business  tax  credit;  disabled  persons.  (a) General. A
     4  taxpayer who has one hundred employees or less, shall be allowed a cred-
     5  it, to be computed as provided in  this  subdivision,  against  the  tax
     6  imposed  by this article for each disabled person hired during a taxable
     7  year, provided that such disabled person  is  employed  for  thirty-five
     8  hours  or  more  per week and remains in the employ of such taxpayer for
     9  twelve months or more.
    10    (b) Amount of credit. A credit authorized by this section shall  equal
    11  five  thousand  dollars  per  hired disabled person but shall not exceed
    12  twenty-five thousand dollars.
    13    (c) Carryovers. The credit  allowed  under  this  subdivision  may  be
    14  claimed  and  if not fully used in the initial year for which the credit
    15  is claimed may be carried over, in order, to each of the five succeeding
    16  taxable years. The credit authorized by this subdivision may not be used
    17  to reduce the tax liability of the credit claimant below zero.
    18    (d) Definitions. As used  in  this  subdivision,  the  term  "disabled
    19  person"  shall  mean  a  person who suffers from any physical, mental or
    20  medical impairment resulting from anatomical, physiological, genetic  or
    21  neurological  conditions  which prevents the exercise of a normal bodily
    22  function or is demonstrable by medically accepted clinical or laboratory
    23  diagnostic techniques.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00368-01-7

        A. 1369                             2
     1    (e) Aggregate amount. The aggregate  amount  of  tax  credits  allowed
     2  pursuant  to  the  authority of this subdivision and subsection (ccc) of
     3  section six hundred six of this chapter shall be  five  million  dollars
     4  each  year.  Such aggregate amounts of credits shall be allocated by the
     5  commissioner.    If the total amount of allocated credits applied for in
     6  any particular year exceeds the aggregate amount of tax credits  allowed
     7  for such year under this section, such excess shall be treated as having
     8  been applied for on the first day of the subsequent year.
     9    (f)  Claim  of  credit.  A taxpayer shall not be allowed to claim this
    10  credit to the extent the basis of the calculation  of  this  credit  has
    11  been claimed for another tax credit under this chapter.
    12    §  2. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (i) of section 606
    13  of the tax law is amended by adding a new  clause  (xliii)  to  read  as
    14  follows:
    15  (xliii) Small business tax credit;   Amount of credit under
    16  disabled persons under               subdivision forty-nine
    17  subsection (ccc)                     of section two hundred
    18                                       ten-B
    19    § 3.  Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection
    20  (ccc) to read as follows:
    21    (ccc)  Small  business  tax  credit;  disabled persons. (1) General. A
    22  taxpayer who has one hundred employees or less, shall be allowed a cred-
    23  it, to be computed as provided  in  this  subsection,  against  the  tax
    24  imposed  by this article for each disabled person hired during a taxable
    25  year, provided that such disabled person  is  employed  for  thirty-five
    26  hours  or  more  per week and remains in the employ of such taxpayer for
    27  twelve months or more.
    28    (2) Amount of credit. A credit authorized by this section shall  equal
    29  five  thousand  dollars  per  hired disabled person but shall not exceed
    30  twenty-five thousand dollars.
    31    (3) Carryovers. The  credit  allowed  under  this  subsection  may  be
    32  claimed  and  if not fully used in the initial year for which the credit
    33  is claimed may be carried over, in order, to each of the five succeeding
    34  taxable years. The credit authorized by this subsection may not be  used
    35  to reduce the tax liability of the credit claimant below zero.
    36    (4)  Definitions.  As  used  in  this  subsection,  the term "disabled
    37  person" shall mean a person who suffers from  any  physical,  mental  or
    38  medical  impairment resulting from anatomical, physiological, genetic or
    39  neurological conditions which prevents the exercise of a  normal  bodily
    40  function or is demonstrable by medically accepted clinical or laboratory
    41  diagnostic techniques.
    42    (5)  Aggregate  amount.  The  aggregate  amount of tax credits allowed
    43  pursuant to the authority of this subsection and subdivision  forty-nine
    44  of  section  two  hundred  ten-B  of  this chapter shall be five million
    45  dollars each year. Such aggregate amounts of credits shall be  allocated
    46  by  the  commissioner.  If the total amount of allocated credits applied
    47  for in any particular year exceeds the aggregate amount of  tax  credits
    48  allowed  for  such year under this section, such excess shall be treated
    49  as having been applied for on the first day of the subsequent year.
    50    (6) Claim of credit. A taxpayer shall not be  allowed  to  claim  this
    51  credit  to  the  extent  the basis of the calculation of this credit has
    52  been claimed for another tax credit under this chapter.
    53    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
    54  years beginning on or after January 1, 2018.
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