Bill Text: NY S02930 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that the use tax on heating fuels shall be suspended during winter months for certain low income senior citizens.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE [S02930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02930-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2930

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to suspending imposition of the
          compensating use tax on heating fuels for certain senior citizens

          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 a new
     2  subdivision (ll) to read as follows:
     3    (ll) Receipts from the sale of heating fuels sold during the months of
     4  December, January, and February, which are sold for home use by  persons
     5  sixty-five years old or older who do not qualify for the low income home
     6  energy  assistance  program  established  by section ninety-seven of the
     7  social services law, but whose income is not above five hundred  dollars
     8  more  than  the qualifying income for such program, shall be exempt from
     9  the tax on retail sales imposed under section eleven hundred ten of this
    10  article.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05974-01-1
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