Bill Text: NY S00171 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Excludes payment of shelter rent taxes from the definition of shelter rent for purposes of computing the tax exemption allowed limited-profit (Mitchell-Lama) housing companies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S00171 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00171-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          171
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
         Community Development
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  private housing finance law, in relation to tax
         exemption for limited-profit housing companies
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1     Section  1.    Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 33 of the
    2  private housing finance law, as amended by chapter 229 of  the  laws  of
    3  1989, is amended to read as follows:
    4     (a)  Upon  the  consent  of the local legislative body of any munici-
    5  pality in which a project is or is to be located, the real property in a
    6  project shall be exempt from  local  and  municipal  taxes,  other  than
    7  assessments  for local improvements, to the extent of all or part of the
    8  value of the property included  in  such  project  which  represents  an
    9  increase over the assessed valuation of the real property, both land and
   10  improvements, acquired for the project at the time of its acquisition by
   11  the  limited-profit  housing  company,  provided, however, that the real
   12  property in a project acquired for purposes of rehabilitation  shall  be
   13  exempt  to  the  extent  of  all  or  part  of the value of the property
   14  included in such project, and further provided that the amount  of  such
   15  taxes  to  be  paid  shall not be less than ten per centum of the annual
   16  shelter rent or  carrying  charges  of  such  project  except  that  for
   17  projects  located  or  to  be  located  in a city of a population of one
   18  million or more, upon the consent of the local legislative body  of  the
   19  municipality, the amount of such taxes to be paid may be set at not less
   20  than  (i)  the  taxes  payable with respect to the real property in such
   21  project with respect to the year  nineteen  hundred  seventy-three,  or,
   22  (ii)  if  such  project was not occupied in such year, not less than ten
   23  per centum of the annual shelter rent or carrying charges  first  estab-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 171                              2
    1  lished  pursuant  to subdivision one of section thirty-one of this arti-
    2  cle. Shelter rent shall mean the total rents received from the occupants
    3  of a project BEFORE THE INCREASE THEREOF DUE TO SHELTER RENT TAXES  less
    4  the  cost of providing to the occupants electricity, gas, heat and other
    5  utilities. Total rents shall  include  rent  supplements  and  subsidies
    6  received  from  the  federal  government, the state or a municipality on
    7  behalf of such occupants,  but  shall  not  include  interest  reduction
    8  payments  pursuant  to subdivision (a) of section two hundred one of the
    9  Federal Housing and Urban Development Act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-
   10  eight. The tax exemption shall operate and continue so long as the mort-
   11  gage  loans  of  the company, including any additional mortgage loan the
   12  proceeds of which are used primarily for the residential portion of  the
   13  project,  which  additional  loan is approved by the commissioner or the
   14  supervising agency, are outstanding.
   15    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
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