Bill Text: NY A04954 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes sales tax exemptions for residential and commercial energy storage systems equipment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-8)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A04954 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04954-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4954

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, STERN, TAYLOR, COLTON, DICKENS -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to  establishing  a  sales  tax
          exemption for energy storage

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1115 of the tax law is amended by  adding  two  new
     2  subdivisions (ll) and (mm) to read as follows:
     3    (ll)  The  following  shall be exempt from tax under this article: (1)
     4  Receipts from the retail sale of, and consideration given or  contracted
     5  to  be  given for, or for the use of, residential energy storage systems
     6  equipment and the service of installing such systems. For  the  purposes
     7  of  this  subdivision,  "residential  energy  storage systems equipment"
     8  shall mean an arrangement or combination of components  installed  in  a
     9  residence  that  stores  electricity  for use at a later time to provide
    10  heating, cooling, hot water and/or electricity.
    11    (2) Receipts from the  sale  of  electricity  by  a  person  primarily
    12  engaged  in the sale of energy storage system equipment and/or electric-
    13  ity generated by such equipment pursuant to a  written  agreement  under
    14  which such electricity is generated by residential energy system storage
    15  equipment  that  is:   (A) owned by a person other than the purchaser of
    16  such electricity; (B) installed on residential property of the purchaser
    17  of such electricity; and (C) used to provide heating, cooling, hot water
    18  or electricity.
    19    (mm) The following shall be exempt from tax under  this  article:  (1)
    20  Receipts  from the retail sale of, and consideration given or contracted
    21  to be given for, or for the use of, commercial  energy  storage  systems
    22  equipment  and the costs of installing such systems. For the purposes of
    23  this subdivision, "commercial energy storage  systems  equipment"  shall
    24  mean  an arrangement or combination of components installed upon non-re-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06308-01-3

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     1  sidential premises that stores electricity for use at a  later  time  to
     2  provide heating, cooling, hot water and/or electricity.
     3    (2)  Receipts  from  the  sale  of  electricity  by a person primarily
     4  engaged in the sale of energy storage system equipment and/or  electric-
     5  ity  generated  by  such equipment pursuant to a written agreement under
     6  which the electricity is generated by commercial energy system equipment
     7  that is: (A) owned by a person other than the purchaser  of  such  elec-
     8  tricity;  (B) installed on the non-residential premises of the purchaser
     9  of such electricity; and (C) used to provide heating, cooling, hot water
    10  or electricity to such premises.
    11    § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the tax law, as
    12  amended by section 5 of part J of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2021,  is
    13  amended to read as follows:
    14    (1) Either, all of the taxes described in article twenty-eight of this
    15  chapter,  at  the same uniform rate, as to which taxes all provisions of
    16  the local laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such taxes  shall  be
    17  identical,  except as to rate and except as otherwise provided, with the
    18  corresponding provisions in such  article  twenty-eight,  including  the
    19  definition  and  exemption  provisions  of  such  article, so far as the
    20  provisions of such article twenty-eight can be made  applicable  to  the
    21  taxes  imposed  by  such  city  or  county and with such limitations and
    22  special provisions as are set forth in this article. The  taxes  author-
    23  ized  under  this  subdivision  may  not  be imposed by a city or county
    24  unless the local law, ordinance or resolution imposes such taxes  so  as
    25  to  include  all  portions  and all types of receipts, charges or rents,
    26  subject to state tax under  sections  eleven  hundred  five  and  eleven
    27  hundred  ten  of  this  chapter, except as otherwise provided.  Notwith-
    28  standing the foregoing, a tax imposed by a  city  or  county  authorized
    29  under  this subdivision shall not include the tax imposed on charges for
    30  admission to race tracks and simulcast facilities under subdivision  (f)
    31  of section eleven hundred five of this chapter. (i) Any local law, ordi-
    32  nance  or  resolution enacted by any city of less than one million or by
    33  any county or school district, imposing the  taxes  authorized  by  this
    34  subdivision,  shall, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contra-
    35  ry, exclude from the operation of such local taxes all sales of tangible
    36  personal property for use or consumption directly and  predominantly  in
    37  the  production of tangible personal property, gas, electricity, refrig-
    38  eration or steam, for sale, by  manufacturing,  processing,  generating,
    39  assembly,  refining,  mining  or  extracting;  and all sales of tangible
    40  personal property for use or consumption  predominantly  either  in  the
    41  production  of  tangible personal property, for sale, by farming or in a
    42  commercial horse boarding operation, or in both; and all sales  of  fuel
    43  sold  for use in commercial aircraft and general aviation aircraft; and,
    44  unless such city, county or school district elects otherwise, shall omit
    45  the provision for credit or refund contained in clause six  of  subdivi-
    46  sion  (a)  or subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred nineteen of this
    47  chapter. (ii) Any local law, ordinance  or  resolution  enacted  by  any
    48  city,  county  or school district, imposing the taxes authorized by this
    49  subdivision, shall omit the residential solar energy  systems  equipment
    50  and  electricity exemption provided for in subdivision (ee), the commer-
    51  cial solar energy systems equipment and electricity  exemption  provided
    52  for in subdivision (ii), the commercial fuel cell electricity generating
    53  systems  equipment and electricity generated by such equipment exemption
    54  provided for in subdivision (kk), the residential energy storage systems
    55  equipment and electricity exemption provided for  in  subdivision  (ll),
    56  the   commercial   energy  storage  systems  equipment  and  electricity

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     1  exemption provided for in subdivision (mm) and the clothing and footwear
     2  exemption provided for in paragraph thirty of subdivision (a) of section
     3  eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter,  unless  such  city,  county  or
     4  school  district  elects  otherwise  as to such residential solar energy
     5  systems equipment and electricity exemption, such commercial solar ener-
     6  gy systems equipment and electricity  exemption,  commercial  fuel  cell
     7  electricity  generating  systems  equipment and electricity generated by
     8  such equipment exemption or such clothing and footwear exemption.
     9    § 3. Subdivision (d) of section 1210 of the tax  law,  as  amended  by
    10  section  4  of  part WW of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
    11  read as follows:
    12    (d) A local law, ordinance or resolution imposing any tax pursuant  to
    13  this  section,  increasing or decreasing the rate of such tax, repealing
    14  or suspending such tax, exempting from such tax the energy  sources  and
    15  services  described in paragraph three of subdivision (a) or of subdivi-
    16  sion (b) of this section or changing the rate of  tax  imposed  on  such
    17  energy  sources  and  services  or  providing  for  the credit or refund
    18  described in clause six of subdivision (a)  of  section  eleven  hundred
    19  nineteen  of  this  chapter,  or electing or repealing the exemption for
    20  residential solar equipment  and  electricity  in  subdivision  (ee)  of
    21  section  eleven  hundred  fifteen  of this article, or the exemption for
    22  commercial solar  equipment  and  electricity  in  subdivision  (ii)  of
    23  section eleven hundred fifteen of this article, or electing or repealing
    24  the  exemption  for  commercial fuel cell electricity generating systems
    25  equipment and electricity generated by  such  equipment  in  subdivision
    26  (kk) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this article, or the exemption
    27  for  residential  energy storage equipment or electricity in subdivision
    28  (ll) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this article, or the exemption
    29  for commercial energy storage equipment and electricity  in  subdivision
    30  (mm)  of  section  eleven  hundred  fifteen of this article must go into
    31  effect only on one of the following  dates:  March  first,  June  first,
    32  September first or December first; provided, that a local law, ordinance
    33  or  resolution providing for the exemption described in paragraph thirty
    34  of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter  or
    35  repealing  any  such  exemption  or a local law, ordinance or resolution
    36  providing for a refund or credit described in subdivision (d) of section
    37  eleven hundred nineteen of this chapter or repealing such  provision  so
    38  provided  must  go  into  effect only on March first. No such local law,
    39  ordinance or resolution shall be effective unless a  certified  copy  of
    40  such  law,  ordinance or resolution is mailed by registered or certified
    41  mail to the commissioner at the commissioner's office in Albany at least
    42  ninety days prior to the date it is to become  effective.  However,  the
    43  commissioner  may  waive  and  reduce  such  ninety-day  minimum  notice
    44  requirement to a mailing of such certified copy by registered or  certi-
    45  fied  mail  within  a  period of not less than thirty days prior to such
    46  effective date if the commissioner deems such action  to  be  consistent
    47  with  the  commissioner's  duties  under section twelve hundred fifty of
    48  this  article  and  the  commissioner  acts  by  resolution.  Where  the
    49  restriction  provided for in section twelve hundred twenty-three of this
    50  article as to the effective date of a tax  and  the  notice  requirement
    51  provided  for  therein  are  applicable  and  have  not been waived, the
    52  restriction and notice requirement in  section  twelve  hundred  twenty-
    53  three of this article shall also apply.
    54    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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