Bill Text: NY A05578 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An act to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting certain motor vehicles, parts and services therefor and railroad rolling stock, parts and services therefor from the sales and use tax imposed by the state
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-07-01 - held for consideration in ways and means [A05578 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A05578-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5578 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 13, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OAKS, BACALLES, FINCH, HAWLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BURLING, CROUCH, ERRIGO, JORDAN, KOLB, McDONOUGH, MILLER, TOWNSEND -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting certain motor vehicles, parts and services therefor and railroad rolling stock, parts and services therefor from the sales and use tax imposed by the state THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision (c) of section 1105 of the tax 2 law is amended by adding two new subparagraphs (xii) and (xiii) to read 3 as follows: 4 (XII) SERVICES RENDERED WITH RESPECT TO THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF 5 RAILROAD AND ROLLING STOCK, PARTS THEREOF AND THE STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS 6 OF THE RAILROAD AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH FORTY-FIVE OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF 7 SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN OF THIS ARTICLE. 8 (XIII) SERVICES RENDERED WITH RESPECT TO THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF 9 MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE PARTS THEREOF AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH FORTY-FOUR 10 OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN OF THIS ARTICLE. 11 S 2. Clause 1 of subdivision (b) of section 1107 of the tax law, as 12 amended by chapter 472 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as 13 follows: 14 (1) The exemptions provided for in PARAGRAPHS FORTY-FOUR AND 15 FORTY-FIVE OF SUBDIVISION (A) AND subdivision (c) of section eleven 16 hundred fifteen AND THE EXCEPTIONS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (XII) 17 AND (XIII) OF PARAGRAPH THREE OF SUBDIVISION (C) OF SECTION ELEVEN 18 HUNDRED FIVE shall not apply to fuel, gas, electricity, refrigeration 19 and steam, and gas, electric, refrigeration and steam service of whatev- 20 er nature for use or consumption directly and exclusively in the 21 production of gas, electricity, refrigeration or steam. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05186-01-9 A. 5578 2 1 S 3. Subdivision (b) of section 1108 of the tax law is amended by 2 adding a new paragraph 6 to read as follows: 3 (6) THE EXEMPTIONS PROVIDED FOR IN PARAGRAPHS FORTY-FOUR AND 4 FORTY-FIVE OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN AND THE 5 EXCEPTIONS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (XII) AND (XIII) OF PARAGRAPH 6 THREE OF SUBDIVISION (C) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIVE SHALL NOT APPLY. 7 S 4. Subdivision (a) of section 1109 of the tax law, as amended by 8 section 1 of part BB of chapter 61 of the laws of 2005, is amended to 9 read as follows: 10 (a) General. In addition to the taxes imposed by sections eleven 11 hundred five and eleven hundred ten of this article, there is hereby 12 imposed within the territorial limits of the metropolitan commuter 13 transportation district created and established pursuant to section 14 twelve hundred sixty-two of the public authorities law, and there shall 15 be paid, additional taxes, at the rate of three-eighths of one percent, 16 which shall be identical to the taxes imposed by sections eleven hundred 17 five and eleven hundred ten of this article, EXCEPT THAT WITH RESPECT TO 18 THE TAX IMPOSED BY THIS SECTION THE EXEMPTIONS PROVIDED FOR IN PARA- 19 GRAPHS FORTY-FOUR AND FORTY-FIVE OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN 20 HUNDRED FIFTEEN AND THE EXCEPTIONS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (XII) 21 AND (XIII) OF PARAGRAPH THREE OF SUBDIVISION (C) OF SECTION ELEVEN 22 HUNDRED FIVE SHALL NOT APPLY. Such sections ELEVEN HUNDRED FIVE AND 23 ELEVEN HUNDRED TEN and the other sections of this article, including the 24 definition and THE OTHER exemption provisions, shall apply for purposes 25 of the taxes imposed by this section in the same manner and with the 26 same force and effect as if the language of those sections had been 27 incorporated in full into this section and had expressly referred to the 28 taxes imposed by this section. 29 S 5. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended by 30 adding two new paragraphs 44 and 45 to read as follows: 31 (44) MOTOR VEHICLES AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION FIVE 32 HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER WHETHER PURCHASED OR LEASED AND PARTS THERE- 33 OF AND THE SERVICES RENDERED WITH RESPECT TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH 34 MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS. 35 (45) RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK WHETHER PURCHASED OR LEASED BY A RAILROAD 36 WHICH IS ENGAGED IN INTRASTATE OR INTERSTATE COMMERCE, PARTS THEREOF, 37 STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS RELATING TO THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE RAILROAD, 38 SERVICES RENDERED WITH RESPECT TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH VEHICLES, 39 PARTS AND STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS. THE TERM "STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS" SHALL 40 INCLUDE BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO RAIL, BRIDGES, CROSSING ARMS AND TRAFFIC 41 SIGNALS. 42 S 6. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 43 1210 of the tax law, as amended by section 4 of part SS-1 of chapter 57 44 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 45 (i) Either, all of the taxes described in article twenty-eight of this 46 chapter, at the same uniform rate, as to which taxes all provisions of 47 the local laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such taxes shall be 48 identical, except as to rate and except as otherwise provided, with the 49 corresponding provisions in such article twenty-eight, including the 50 definition and exemption provisions of such article, EXCEPT THE 51 EXEMPTIONS PROVIDED FOR IN PARAGRAPHS FORTY-FOUR AND FORTY-FIVE OF 52 SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER AND 53 THE EXCEPTIONS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (XII) AND (XIII) OF PARA- 54 GRAPH THREE OF SUBDIVISION (C) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIVE OF THIS 55 CHAPTER SHALL NOT APPLY so far as the provisions of such article twen- 56 ty-eight can be made applicable to the taxes imposed by such city or A. 5578 3 1 county and with such limitations and special provisions as are set forth 2 in this article. The taxes authorized under this subdivision may not be 3 imposed by a city or county unless the local law, ordinance or resol- 4 ution imposes such taxes so as to include all portions and all types of 5 receipts, charges or rents, subject to state tax under sections eleven 6 hundred five and eleven hundred ten of this chapter, except as otherwise 7 provided. Any local law, ordinance or resolution enacted by any city of 8 less than one million or by any county or school district, imposing the 9 taxes authorized by this subdivision, shall, notwithstanding any 10 provision of law to the contrary, exclude from the operation of such 11 local taxes all sales of tangible personal property for use or consump- 12 tion directly and predominantly in the production of tangible personal 13 property, gas, electricity, refrigeration or steam, for sale, by manu- 14 facturing, processing, generating, assembly, refining, mining or 15 extracting; and all sales of tangible personal property for use or 16 consumption predominantly either in the production of tangible personal 17 property, for sale, by farming or in a commercial horse boarding opera- 18 tion, or in both; and, unless such city, county or school district 19 elects otherwise, shall omit the provision for credit or refund 20 contained in clause six of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred 21 nineteen of this chapter. Any local law, ordinance or resolution enacted 22 by any city, county or school district, imposing the taxes authorized by 23 this subdivision, shall omit the residential solar energy systems equip- 24 ment exemption provided for in subdivision (ee), the clothing and foot- 25 wear exemption provided for in paragraph thirty of subdivision (a) and 26 the qualified empire zone enterprise exemptions provided for in subdivi- 27 sion (z) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter, unless such 28 city, county or school district elects otherwise as to either such resi- 29 dential solar energy systems equipment exemption or such clothing and 30 footwear exemption or such qualified empire zone enterprise exemptions; 31 provided that if such a city having a population of one million or more 32 in which the taxes imposed by section eleven hundred seven of this chap- 33 ter are in effect enacts the resolution described in subdivision (k) of 34 this section or repeals such resolution or enacts the resolution 35 described in subdivision (l) of this section or repeals such resolution 36 or enacts the resolution described in subdivision (n) of this section or 37 repeals such resolution, such resolution or repeal shall also be deemed 38 to amend any local law, ordinance or resolution enacted by such a city 39 imposing such taxes pursuant to the authority of this subdivision, 40 whether or not such taxes are suspended at the time such city enacts its 41 resolution pursuant to subdivision (k), (l) or (n) of this section or at 42 the time of any such repeal; provided, further, that any such local law, 43 ordinance or resolution and section eleven hundred seven of this chap- 44 ter, as deemed to be amended in the event a city of one million or more 45 enacts a resolution pursuant to the authority of subdivision (k), (l) or 46 (n) of this section, shall be further amended, as provided in section 47 twelve hundred eighteen of this subpart, so that the residential solar 48 energy systems equipment exemption or the clothing and footwear 49 exemption or the qualified empire zone enterprise exemptions in any such 50 local law, ordinance or resolution or in such section eleven hundred 51 seven are the same, as the case may be, as the residential solar energy 52 systems equipment exemption provided for in subdivision (ee), the cloth- 53 ing and footwear exemption in paragraph thirty of subdivision (a) or the 54 qualified empire zone enterprise exemptions in subdivision (z) of 55 section eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter. A. 5578 4 1 S 7. This act shall take effect December 1, 2009 provided, however, 2 that the exemptions and exceptions provided for in sections one through 3 six of this act shall apply to retail sales or uses occurring on and 4 after January 1, 2010.