Bill Text: NY S04093 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Establishes a small business tax credit for the employment of disabled persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-23 - PRINT NUMBER 4093C [S04093 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04093-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4093--C
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 26, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. ADDABBO, COMRIE, DILAN, ESPAILLAT, PARKER, PERKINS
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations -- recommit-
          ted to the Committee on Investigations and  Government  Operations  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a  small  busi-
          ness tax credit for the employment of disabled persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 49 to read as follows:
     3    49.  Small  business  tax  credit;  disabled  persons.  (a) General. A
     4  taxpayer who has one hundred employees or less, shall be allowed a cred-
     5  it, to be computed as provided in  this  subdivision,  against  the  tax
     6  imposed  by this article for each disabled person hired during a taxable
     7  year, provided that such disabled person  is  employed  for  thirty-five
     8  hours  or  more  per week and remains in the employ of such taxpayer for
     9  twelve months or more.
    10    (b) Amount of credit. A credit authorized by this section shall  equal
    11  five  thousand  dollars  per  hired disabled person but shall not exceed
    12  twenty-five thousand dollars.
    13    (c) Carryovers. The credit  allowed  under  this  subdivision  may  be
    14  claimed  and  if not fully used in the initial year for which the credit
    15  is claimed may be carried over, in order, to each of the five succeeding
    16  taxable years. The credit authorized by this subdivision may not be used
    17  to reduce the tax liability of the credit claimant below zero.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03112-12-6

        S. 4093--C                          2
     1    (d) Definitions. As used  in  this  subdivision,  the  term  "disabled
     2  person"  shall  mean  a  person who suffers from any physical, mental or
     3  medical impairment resulting from anatomical, physiological, genetic  or
     4  neurological  conditions  which prevents the exercise of a normal bodily
     5  function or is demonstrable by medically accepted clinical or laboratory
     6  diagnostic techniques.
     7    (e)  Aggregate  amount.  The  aggregate  amount of tax credits allowed
     8  pursuant to the authority of this subdivision and  subsection  (ccc)  of
     9  section  six  hundred  six of this chapter shall be five million dollars
    10  each year.  Such aggregate amounts of credits shall be allocated by  the
    11  commissioner.    If the total amount of allocated credits applied for in
    12  any particular year exceeds the aggregate amount of tax credits  allowed
    13  for such year under this section, such excess shall be treated as having
    14  been applied for on the first day of the subsequent year.
    15    (f)  Claim  of  credit.  A taxpayer shall not be allowed to claim this
    16  credit to the extent the basis of the calculation  of  this  credit  has
    17  been claimed for another tax credit under this chapter.
    18    §  2. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (i) of section 606
    19  of the tax law is amended by adding a new  clause  (xliii)  to  read  as
    20  follows:
    21  (xliii) Small business tax credit;   Amount of credit under
    22  disabled persons under               subdivision forty-nine
    23  subsection (ccc)                     of section two hundred
    24                                       ten-B
    25    § 3.  Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection
    26  (ccc) to read as follows:
    27    (ccc)  Small  business  tax  credit;  disabled persons. (1) General. A
    28  taxpayer who has one hundred employees or less, shall be allowed a cred-
    29  it, to be computed as provided  in  this  subsection,  against  the  tax
    30  imposed  by this article for each disabled person hired during a taxable
    31  year, provided that such disabled person  is  employed  for  thirty-five
    32  hours  or  more  per week and remains in the employ of such taxpayer for
    33  twelve months or more.
    34    (2) Amount of credit. A credit authorized by this section shall  equal
    35  five  thousand  dollars  per  hired disabled person but shall not exceed
    36  twenty-five thousand dollars.
    37    (3) Carryovers. The  credit  allowed  under  this  subsection  may  be
    38  claimed  and  if not fully used in the initial year for which the credit
    39  is claimed may be carried over, in order, to each of the five succeeding
    40  taxable years. The credit authorized by this subsection may not be  used
    41  to reduce the tax liability of the credit claimant below zero.
    42    (4)  Definitions.  As  used  in  this  subsection,  the term "disabled
    43  person" shall mean a person who suffers from  any  physical,  mental  or
    44  medical  impairment resulting from anatomical, physiological, genetic or
    45  neurological conditions which prevents the exercise of a  normal  bodily
    46  function or is demonstrable by medically accepted clinical or laboratory
    47  diagnostic techniques.
    48    (5)  Aggregate  amount.  The  aggregate  amount of tax credits allowed
    49  pursuant to the authority of this subsection and subdivision  forty-nine
    50  of  section  two  hundred  ten-B  of  this chapter shall be five million
    51  dollars each year. Such aggregate amounts of credits shall be  allocated
    52  by  the  commissioner.  If the total amount of allocated credits applied
    53  for in any particular year exceeds the aggregate amount of  tax  credits
    54  allowed  for  such year under this section, such excess shall be treated
    55  as having been applied for on the first day of the subsequent year.

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     1    (6) Claim of credit. A taxpayer shall not be  allowed  to  claim  this
     2  credit  to  the  extent  the basis of the calculation of this credit has
     3  been claimed for another tax credit under this chapter.
     4    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
     5  years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
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