STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the tax  law,  in  relation  to  providing  a  deduction
          against  adjusted  gross  income  for dues paid by small businesses to
          chambers of commerce

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph 47 to read as follows:
     3    (47) In the case of a taxpayer who is  a  small  business,  an  amount
     4  equal  to  the amount paid by such taxpayer as dues to the local chamber
     5  of commerce within which such business is located,  provided  that  such
     6  chamber  of  commerce is incorporated under section fourteen hundred ten
     7  of the not-for-profit corporation law. The amount deductible pursuant to
     8  this paragraph shall not include any portion of the amount of dues  paid
     9  by the taxpayer that are used or intended to be used for the purposes of
    10  lobbying.    For  purposes  of this paragraph, the term "small business"
    11  shall mean a business with fifty employees or less.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
    13  years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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