Bill Text: NY A07611 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to a study on requiring credit card companies to collect certain taxes and requires the results of the study to be submitted to the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-19 - held for consideration in ways and means [A07611 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07611-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7611
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 11, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Ways and Means
       AN  ACT  requiring the commissioner of taxation and finance to conduct a
         study on requiring issuers of credit cards and debit cards to pay  and
         collect  sales  and  use  taxes and to pay such taxes directly to such
         commissioner
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Study  on credit card companies collecting certain taxes.
    2  The commissioner of taxation is authorized and  directed  to  conduct  a
    3  study  on  requiring  issuers of credit cards and debit cards to pay and
    4  collect sales and use taxes and pay such taxes directly to such  commis-
    5  sioner.
    6    2.  Such study shall include but not be limited to an investigation of
    7  the current system which relies solely upon the thousands of vendors  to
    8  voluntarily remit such sales taxes, methods to improve the collection of
    9  sales taxes from credit card and debit card issuers, the technology that
   10  would be required to implement a system of direct payment to the commis-
   11  sioner  of  taxation  and  finance,  and the cost of implementing such a
   12  system.
   13    3. Such study shall be submitted to the legislature on or before April
   14  15, 2012.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11104-01-1
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