Bill Text: NY A00198 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Offers certain refunds or credits to school bus operators from sales tax for certain school buses and equipment and fuel used in operation of a school bus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A00198 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00198-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 198 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing certain school bus operators with a refund or credit of sales and compensating use taxes on the purchase of school buses and equipment and fuel used in the operation of a school bus The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1119 of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision (g) to read as follows: 3 (g) Subject to the conditions and limitations provided in this subdi- 4 vision, a refund or credit shall be allowed for tax paid pursuant to 5 subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred five, paragraph three of 6 subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred five, or section eleven 7 hundred ten of this article and any tax imposed pursuant to the authori- 8 ty of article twenty-nine of this chapter, on the sale to or purchase by 9 a school bus operator of (i) a school bus, as defined in section one 10 hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law, at least seventy 11 percent of the use of which is for the transportation, by such operator, 12 of school students to or from school or school related events, pursuant 13 to a contract made under the provisions of the education law, (ii) 14 parts, equipment and lubricants when such parts, equipment and lubri- 15 cants are installed in or on such a school bus, at least seventy percent 16 of the use of which is for such transportation, by such operator, pursu- 17 ant to such contract, (iii) the services described in paragraph three of 18 subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred five of this article when 19 rendered with respect to such a school bus so used or with respect to 20 parts, equipment and lubricants installed in or on such a school bus so 21 used, and (iv) motor fuel or diesel motor fuel used exclusively by such 22 operator in such a school bus for such transportation pursuant to such EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01079-01-7A. 198 2 1 contract. No refund or credit shall be allowed under this subdivision 2 unless all of the requirements for such refund or credit have been met 3 for at least a twelve month period after the school bus operator's 4 purchase of such school bus; however, such refund or credit shall be 5 allowed for a school bus that is painted "national school bus chrome" 6 pursuant to subdivision twenty-one of section three hundred seventy-five 7 of the vehicle and traffic law and labeled as a "SCHOOL BUS" pursuant to 8 subparagraph one of paragraph (b) of subdivision twenty of such section 9 three hundred seventy-five if all of the requirements for such refund or 10 credit have been met in the previous quarterly reporting period as 11 described in subdivision (b) of section eleven hundred thirty-six of 12 this article. An application for a refund or credit pursuant to this 13 subdivision must be filed with the commissioner within the time provided 14 by subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred thirty-nine of this article 15 and no more frequently than quarterly. Such application shall be in 16 such form as the commissioner may prescribe. Where an application for 17 credit has been filed, the school bus operator may take such credit on 18 the return which is due coincident with or immediately subsequent to the 19 time the school bus operator files such application for credit. Howev- 20 er, the taking of the credit on the return shall be deemed to be part of 21 the application for credit and shall be subject to the provisions in 22 respect to applications for credit in such section eleven hundred thir- 23 ty-nine as provided in subdivision (e) of such section. The allowance 24 of the credit or refund shall also be subject to the school bus operator 25 maintaining records satisfactory to the commissioner demonstrating 26 compliance with all the requirements of this subdivision. The percent- 27 age of such school bus use may be computed either on the basis of mile- 28 age or hours of use, at the discretion of the purchaser or user. For the 29 purposes of this subdivision, the term "school" shall mean a pre-kinder- 30 garten or kindergarten program, a preschool, nursery school or elementa- 31 ry, intermediate or secondary school. The refund or credit shall be 32 fifty percent for the period commencing September first, two thousand 33 eighteen to August thirty-first, two thousand nineteen. The refund or 34 credit shall be one hundred percent commencing September first, two 35 thousand nineteen. 36 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the sales tax 37 quarterly period, as described in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the 38 tax law, next commencing September 1, 2018 and shall apply in accordance 39 with the applicable transitional provisions in sections 1106 and 1217 of 40 the tax law; provided, further, that the commissioner of taxation and 41 finance shall be authorized on and after the date this act shall have 42 become a law to adopt and amend any rules or regulations and issue any 43 procedure, forms or instructions necessary to implement this act on its 44 effective date.
