Bill Text: NY S03254 | 2017-2018 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S03254 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03254-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3254
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 20, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations
        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.
                                                                   LBD05192-01-7
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