Bill Text: NY A00456 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a tax exemption on fuel used by providers of transportation services to the transit disabled.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to ways and means [A00456 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00456-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          456
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       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  exempting  fuel  used  by
         providers  of  transportation  services  to  the transit disabled from
         certain taxes
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 282-a of the tax
    2  law, as amended by section 5 of part K of chapter  61  of  the  laws  of
    3  2011, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  The  tax  imposed  by this section shall not apply to the sale of
    5  untaxed Diesel motor fuel to or the use of such fuel by an  organization
    6  described  in  paragraph one or two of subdivision (a) of section eleven
    7  hundred sixteen of this chapter, OR  TO  A  PROVIDER  OF  TRANSPORTATION
    8  SERVICES  FOR  USE IN VEHICLES USED IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF THE TRANSIT
    9  DISABLED where such Diesel motor fuel is used by such  organization  for
   10  its  own  use or consumption.   FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, "TRANSIT
   11  DISABLED" SHALL MEAN INDIVIDUALS WHO, BY REASON OF ILLNESS, AGE, INJURY,
   12  CONGENITAL MALFUNCTION OR OTHER PERMANENT  OR  TEMPORARY  INCAPACITY  OR
   13  DISABILITY,  ARE UNABLE, WITHOUT SPECIAL FACILITIES, PLANNING OR DESIGN,
   14  TO USE MASS TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES EFFECTIVELY.
   15    S 2. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 3 of section 289-c of the  tax  law,
   16  as  amended  by  chapter  276 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as
   17  follows:
   18    (g) An organization described in paragraph one or two  of  subdivision
   19  (a)  of  section  eleven  hundred  sixteen of this chapter or a hospital
   20  included in the organizations described in paragraph four of such subdi-
   21  vision, or a fire company or fire  department,  as  defined  in  section
   22  three  of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, or a volunteer rescue
   23  squad supported in whole or in part by  tax  money,  OR  A  PROVIDER  OF
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02832-01-5
       A. 456                              2
    1  TRANSPORTATION  SERVICES  FOR  THE TRANSIT DISABLED DESCRIBED IN SECTION
    2  TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO-A OF THIS ARTICLE where any such  entity  is  the
    3  purchaser,  user  or  consumer  of  motor fuel or diesel motor fuel in a
    4  vehicle  owned and operated by it and used exclusively for its purposes,
    5  or an airline where it has  purchased  kero-jet  fuel  for  use  in  its
    6  airplanes  shall be reimbursed the amount of the taxes on motor fuel and
    7  diesel motor fuel imposed by or pursuant to the authority of this  arti-
    8  cle included in the price paid for such motor fuel or diesel motor fuel.
    9    S  3. Section 301-b of the tax law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
   10  sion (j) to read as follows:
   11    (J) EXEMPTION FOR PROVIDERS OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO THE  TRANSIT
   12  DISABLED. A USE BY A PROVIDER OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO THE DISABLED
   13  AS  DESCRIBED  IN  SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO-A OF THIS CHAPTER OF
   14  DIESEL MOTOR FUEL OR RESIDUAL PETROLEUM PRODUCT WHERE SUCH DIESEL  MOTOR
   15  FUEL  OR RESIDUAL PETROLEUM PRODUCT WAS USED AND CONSUMED EXCLUSIVELY IN
   16  PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO THE TRANSIT DISABLED.
   17    S 4. Section 301-c of the tax law is amended by adding a new  subdivi-
   18  sion (q) to read as follows:
   19    (Q)  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR  PROVIDERS  OF  TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO THE
   20  TRANSIT DISABLED. A USE BY A PROVIDER OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO  THE
   21  DISABLED  AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO-A OF THIS CHAP-
   22  TER OF DIESEL MOTOR FUEL OR RESIDUAL PETROLEUM PRODUCT WHERE SUCH DIESEL
   23  MOTOR FUEL OR RESIDUAL PETROLEUM PRODUCT WAS USED  AND  CONSUMED  EXCLU-
   24  SIVELY  IN  PROVIDING  TRANSPORTATION  SERVICES TO THE TRANSIT DISABLED.
   25  THIS REIMBURSEMENT MAY BE CLAIMED ONLY WHERE (1) ANY TAX IMPOSED  PURSU-
   26  ANT TO THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN PAID WITH RESPECT TO SUCH GALLONAGE AND THE
   27  ENTIRE  AMOUNT  OF SUCH TAX HAS BEEN ABSORBED BY SUCH PURCHASER, AND (2)
   28  SUCH PURCHASER POSSESSES DOCUMENTARY PROOF SATISFACTORY TO  THE  COMMIS-
   29  SIONER EVIDENCING THE ABSORPTION BY IT OF THE ENTIRE AMOUNT OF SUCH TAX.
   30  PROVIDED,  THAT THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE SUCH DOCUMENTARY PROOF TO
   31  QUALIFY FOR ANY REIMBURSEMENT PROVIDED HEREUNDER AS THE COMMISSIONER MAY
   32  DEEM APPROPRIATE.
   33    S 5. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the  tax  law  is  amended  by
   34  adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
   35    (44) FUEL SOLD TO A PROVIDER OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO THE TRANSIT
   36  DISABLED  AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO-A OF THIS CHAP-
   37  TER FOR USE IN PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO  THE  TRANSIT  DISA-
   38  BLED.
   39    S  6. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   40  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.