Bill Text: NY S03503 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to providing a tax credit to businesses for the purchase of emergency electrical generators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-28 - PRINT NUMBER 3503A [S03503 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S03503-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3503--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 20, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. VOLKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and
Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing a tax credit to
businesses for the purchase of emergency electrical generators
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 210 of the tax law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 41 to read as follows:
3 41. CREDIT FOR THE PURCHASE OF EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL GENERATORS. (A)
4 ALLOWANCE AND AMOUNT OF CREDIT. A TAXPAYER ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF
5 OFFERING FOR SALE PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS SHALL BE ALLOWED A CREDIT, TO BE
6 COMPUTED AS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, AGAINST THE TAX IMPOSED BY
7 THIS ARTICLE. THE AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT
8 EXPENDED IN THE PREVIOUS TAX YEAR FOR THE PURCHASE OF ONE OR MORE EMER-
9 GENCY ELECTRICAL GENERATORS IMPLEMENTED TO PREVENT SPOILAGE OF FOOD
10 ITEMS.
11 (B) APPLICATION OF CREDIT. THE CREDIT ALLOWED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION
12 FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR SHALL NOT REDUCE THE TAX DUE FOR SUCH YEAR TO LESS
13 THAN THE HIGHER OF THE AMOUNTS PRESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPHS (C) AND (D) OF
14 SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION. HOWEVER, IF THE AMOUNT OF CREDIT
15 ALLOWED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR REDUCES THE TAX TO
16 SUCH AMOUNT, ANY AMOUNT OF CREDIT THUS NOT DEDUCTIBLE IN SUCH TAXABLE
17 YEAR SHALL BE TREATED AS AN OVERPAYMENT OF TAX TO BE CREDITED OR
18 REFUNDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION ONE THOUSAND
19 EIGHTY-SIX OF THIS CHAPTER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PROVISIONS OF
20 SUBSECTION (C) OF SECTION ONE THOUSAND EIGHTY-EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER
21 NOTWITHSTANDING, NO INTEREST SHALL BE PAID THEREON.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 S 2. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (i) of section 606
2 of the tax law is amended by adding a new clause (xxxi) to read as
3 follows:
4 (XXXI) CREDIT FOR THE PURCHASE OF AMOUNT OF CREDIT UNDER SUBDIVISION
5 EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL GENERATORS FORTY-ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED
6 UNDER SUBSECTION (QQ) TEN
7 S 3. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection
8 (qq) to read as follows:
9 (QQ) CREDIT FOR THE PURCHASE OF EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL GENERATORS. (1)
10 ALLOWANCE AND AMOUNT OF CREDIT. A TAXPAYER ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF
11 OFFERING FOR SALE PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS SHALL BE ALLOWED A CREDIT, TO BE
12 COMPUTED AS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBSECTION, AGAINST THE TAX IMPOSED BY THIS
13 ARTICLE. THE AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT EXPENDED
14 IN THE PREVIOUS TAX YEAR FOR THE PURCHASE OF ONE OR MORE EMERGENCY ELEC-
15 TRICAL GENERATORS IMPLEMENTED TO PREVENT SPOILAGE OF FOOD ITEMS.
16 (2) APPLICATION OF CREDIT. IF THE AMOUNT OF CREDIT ALLOWED UNDER THIS
17 SUBSECTION FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR SHALL EXCEED THE TAXPAYER'S TAX FOR SUCH
18 YEAR, THE EXCESS SHALL BE TREATED AS AN OVERPAYMENT OF TAX TO BE CREDIT-
19 ED OR REFUNDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED
20 EIGHTY-SIX OF THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO INTEREST SHALL BE
21 PAID THEREON.
22 S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
