Bill Text: NY A01522 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Sets the rate of taxation on estates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A01522 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01522-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1522 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, SIMOTAS, SIMANOWITZ, SCHIMMINGER, ABINANTI, OTIS, MOSLEY, ZEBROWSKI, GALEF, STIRPE, O'DONNELL -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, DenDEKKER, GLICK, LUPARDO, SOLAGES, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the rate of the estate tax The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 952 of the tax 2 law, as added by section 2 of part X of chapter 59 of the laws of 2014, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 (1) A credit of the applicable credit amount shall be allowed against 5 the tax imposed by this section as provided in this subsection. In the 6 case of a decedent whose New York taxable estate is less than or equal 7 to the basic exclusion amount, the applicable credit amount shall be the 8 amount of tax that would be due under subsection (b) of this section on 9 such decedent's New York taxable estate. [In the case of a decedent10whose New York taxable estate exceeds the basic exclusion amount by an11amount that is less than or equal to five percent of such amount, the12applicable credit amount shall be the amount of tax that would be due13under subsection (b) of this section if the amount on which the tax is14to be computed were equal to the basic exclusion amount multiplied by15one minus a fraction, the numerator of which is the decedent's New York16taxable estate minus the basic exclusion amount, and the denominator of17which is five percent of the basic exclusion amount.] Provided, however, 18 that the credit allowed by this subsection shall not exceed the tax 19 imposed by this section[, and no credit shall be allowed to the estate20of any decedent whose New York taxable estate exceeds one hundred five21percent of the basic exclusion amount]. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01753-01-7