Bill Text: NY A05203 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5203 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the department of taxation and finance to create and implement an online program which will enable each New York state taxpayer to prepare and electronically file his or her federal and state income tax returns free of charge.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A05203 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05203-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5203
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT directing the department of taxation and finance  to  create  and
          implement  an  online  program  which  will enable each New York state
          taxpayer to prepare and electronically file his  or  her  federal  and
          state income tax returns free of charge
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The department of taxation and finance  is  authorized  and
     2  directed  to  create  and  implement an online program which will enable
     3  each New York state taxpayer to prepare and electronically file  his  or
     4  her  federal  and state income tax returns free of charge, regardless of
     5  the taxpayer's income level. This program shall be made available to all
     6  New York state taxpayers on the department's website no later  than  one
     7  hundred eighty days following the effective date of this act.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05096-01-7