Bill Text: NY A08179 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Imposes a tax on certain businesses when people are displaced from their employment due to certain technologies based on the sum of any taxes or fees imposed by the state or any political subdivision thereof computed based on a displaced employee's wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A08179 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8179

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BURKE, REYES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to imposing a  tax  on  certain
          businesses  when  people  are  displaced  from their employment due to
          certain technologies

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

     1    Section  1.  The  tax  law is amended by adding a new section 209-A to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 209-A. Additional tax on using technology to  displace  workers.  1.
     4  (a) For the privilege of exercising its corporate franchise, or of doing
     5  business, or of employing capital, or of owning or leasing property in a
     6  corporate  or  organized  capacity,  or  of maintaining an office, or of
     7  deriving receipts from activity in this state, for all or  any  part  of
     8  its  taxable  year, there is hereby imposed on every corporation subject
     9  to tax under section two hundred nine of this article, or any  receiver,
    10  referee,  trustee,  assignee or other fiduciary, or any officer or agent
    11  appointed by any court, who conducts the business  of  any  such  corpo-
    12  ration,  a  tax  surcharge, in addition to the tax imposed under section
    13  two hundred nine of this article, to be in an amount equal to the sum of
    14  any taxes or fees imposed by the  state  or  any  political  subdivision
    15  thereof computed based on an employee's wage, paid by the corporation or
    16  the  employee,  including,  but  not limited to, state income tax, state
    17  unemployment insurance, and local occupational taxes, for an  employee's
    18  final  year  of  employment  with  the  company  where such employee was
    19  displaced in such taxable year due  to  the  employee's  position  being
    20  replaced  by  technology.  For  the  purposes  of this section, the term
    21  "technology" shall include, but not be limited to, machinery, artificial
    22  intelligence algorithms, or computer applications.
    23    (b) A corporation is deriving receipts from activity in this state  if
    24  it  has receipts within this state of one million dollars or more in the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13007-01-3

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     1  taxable year. For purposes of this section, the  term  "receipts"  means
     2  the  receipts  that  are subject to the apportionment rules set forth in
     3  section two hundred ten-A of this article, and the term "receipts within
     4  this  state"  means the receipts included in the numerator of the appor-
     5  tionment factor determined under section two hundred ten-A of this arti-
     6  cle.
     7    (c) A corporation is doing business in  this  state  if:  (i)  it  has
     8  issued credit cards to one thousand or more customers who have a mailing
     9  address  within  this state as of the last day of its taxable year; (ii)
    10  it has merchant customer contracts with merchants and the  total  number
    11  of  locations  covered  by  those  contracts equals one thousand or more
    12  locations in this state to whom the corporation  remitted  payments  for
    13  credit  card  transactions  during the taxable year; or (iii) the sum of
    14  the number of customers described in subparagraph (i) of this  paragraph
    15  plus  the  number  of  locations  covered  by its contracts described in
    16  subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph equals one thousand or more. As used
    17  in this subdivision, the term "credit card" includes bank, credit, trav-
    18  el and entertainment cards.
    19    (d)(i) A corporation with less than one million dollars but  at  least
    20  ten  thousand  dollars  of  receipts within this state in a taxable year
    21  that is part of a unitary group that  meets  the  ownership  test  under
    22  section  two  hundred  ten-C  of  this article is deriving receipts from
    23  activity in this state if the receipts within this state of the  members
    24  of the unitary group that have at least ten thousand dollars of receipts
    25  within this state in the aggregate meet the threshold set forth in para-
    26  graph (b) of this subdivision.
    27    (ii)  A corporation that does not meet any of the thresholds set forth
    28  in paragraph (c) of this subdivision but has at least ten customers,  or
    29  locations,  or customers and locations, as described in paragraph (c) of
    30  this subdivision, and is part of a unitary group that meets  the  owner-
    31  ship test under section two hundred ten-C of this article is doing busi-
    32  ness  in  this state if the number of customers, locations, or customers
    33  and locations, within this state of the members  of  the  unitary  group
    34  that have at least ten customers, locations, or customers and locations,
    35  within this state in the aggregate meets any of the thresholds set forth
    36  in paragraph (c) of this subdivision.
    37    (e) At the end of each year, the commissioner shall review the cumula-
    38  tive  percentage  change  in  the consumer price index. The commissioner
    39  shall adjust the receipt thresholds set forth in this subdivision if the
    40  consumer price index has changed by ten percent or  more  since  January
    41  first,  two thousand fifteen, or since the date that the thresholds were
    42  last adjusted under this subdivision. The thresholds shall  be  adjusted
    43  to  reflect  that  cumulative  percentage  change  in the consumer price
    44  index.  The adjusted thresholds shall be  rounded  to  the  nearest  one
    45  thousand  dollars.  As  used  in  this paragraph, "consumer price index"
    46  means the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) available
    47  from the bureau of labor statistics of the United States  department  of
    48  labor.  Any  adjustment  shall apply to tax periods that begin after the
    49  adjustment is made.
    50    (f) If a partnership is doing business, employing capital,  owning  or
    51  leasing  property  in this state, maintaining an office in the state, or
    52  deriving receipts from activity in this state, any corporation that is a
    53  partner in such partnership shall be subject to tax under  this  article
    54  as described in the regulations of the commissioner.
    55    2. (a) A foreign corporation shall not be deemed to be doing business,
    56  employing  capital, owning or leasing property, or maintaining an office

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     1  in this state, or deriving receipts from activity in this state, for the
     2  purposes of this article, by reason of:  (i)  the  maintenance  of  cash
     3  balances with banks or trust companies in this state; (ii) the ownership
     4  of  shares  of stock or securities kept in this state, if kept in a safe
     5  deposit box, safe, vault or other receptacle rented for the purpose,  or
     6  if  pledged  as  collateral  security,  or if deposited with one or more
     7  banks or trust companies, or brokers who are  members  of  a  recognized
     8  security  exchange, in safekeeping or custody accounts; (iii) the taking
     9  of any action by any such bank or trust  company  or  broker,  which  is
    10  incidental  to the rendering of safekeeping or custodian service to such
    11  corporation; (iv) the maintenance of an office in this state by  one  or
    12  more  officers  or directors of the corporation who are not employees of
    13  the corporation if the corporation otherwise is not  doing  business  in
    14  this state, and does not employ capital or own or lease property in this
    15  state;  (v)  the  keeping  of  books or records of a corporation in this
    16  state if such books or records are not kept by employees of such  corpo-
    17  ration and such corporation does not otherwise do business, employ capi-
    18  tal,  own or lease property or maintain an office in this state; or (vi)
    19  any combination of the foregoing activities.
    20    (b) An alien corporation shall not be deemed  to  be  doing  business,
    21  employing  capital, owning or leasing property, maintaining an office in
    22  this state, or deriving receipts from activity in this  state,  for  the
    23  purposes  of  this  article, if its activities in this state are limited
    24  solely to: (i) investing or trading in stocks and securities for its own
    25  account within the meaning of clause (ii) of subparagraph (A)  of  para-
    26  graph  (2)  of subsection (b) of section eight hundred sixty-four of the
    27  internal revenue code; (ii) investing or trading in commodities for  its
    28  own  account  within  the  meaning of clause (ii) of subparagraph (B) of
    29  paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of section eight hundred  sixty-four  of
    30  the  internal  revenue  code;  or  (iii)  any  combination of activities
    31  described in subparagraphs (i) and (ii)  of  this  paragraph.  An  alien
    32  corporation that under any provision of the internal revenue code is not
    33  treated as a "domestic corporation" as defined in section seven thousand
    34  seven  hundred  one of such code and has no effectively connected income
    35  for the taxable year pursuant to clause (iv) of the opening paragraph of
    36  subdivision nine of section two hundred eight of this article shall  not
    37  be subject to tax under this article for that taxable year. For purposes
    38  of  this  article, an alien corporation is a corporation organized under
    39  the laws of a country, or any political subdivision thereof, other  than
    40  the United States, or organized under the laws of a possession, territo-
    41  ry or commonwealth of the United States.
    42    3. Any receiver, referee, trustee, assignee or other fiduciary, or any
    43  officer  or  agent  appointed by any court, who conducts the business of
    44  any corporation, shall be subject to the tax imposed by this article  in
    45  the same manner and to the same extent as if the business were conducted
    46  by  the  agents or officers of such corporation. A dissolved corporation
    47  which continues to conduct business shall also be  subject  to  the  tax
    48  imposed by this article.
    49    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
    50  years  starting  January  1,  2024. Effective immediately, the addition,
    51  amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary  for  the
    52  implementation  of  this  act on its effective date are authorized to be
    53  made and completed on or before such effective date.
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