Bill Text: NY S04165 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a personal income tax credit for a portion of a taxpayer's residential real property taxes which exceeds a certain percentage of the taxpayer's household gross income; provides that the taxpayer shall have resided in such residential real property for not less than 10 years; provides that such credit shall not apply to taxpayers whose household gross income exceeds $250,000 or who have received the school tax relief exemption on such real property.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04165 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S04165-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4165 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 15, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi- gations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing the maximum residential real property, personal income tax credit THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subsection (qq) to read as follows: 3 (QQ) MAXIMUM RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY TAX CREDIT. (1) DEFINITIONS. 4 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION: 5 (A) "QUALIFIED TAXPAYER" MEANS A RESIDENT INDIVIDUAL OF THE STATE WHO 6 OWNS THE RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY IN WHICH HE OR SHE RESIDES, AND HAS 7 RESIDED IN SUCH RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY FOR NOT LESS THAN TEN YEARS. 8 (B) "HOUSEHOLD" MEANS THE TAXPAYER OR TAXPAYERS AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, 9 NOT NECESSARILY RELATED, WHO ALL RESIDE IN THE RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY 10 OWNED BY THE TAXPAYER OR TAXPAYERS, AND SHARE ITS FURNISHINGS, FACILI- 11 TIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS; PROVIDED THAT NO PERSON MAY BE A MEMBER OF MORE 12 THAN ONE HOUSEHOLD AT ONE TIME. 13 (C) "HOUSEHOLD GROSS INCOME" MEANS THE AGGREGATE ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME 14 OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR; PROVIDED THAT SUCH 15 TERM SHALL ONLY INCLUDE ALL SUCH INCOME RECEIVED BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE 16 HOUSEHOLD WHILE MEMBERS OF SUCH HOUSEHOLD. 17 (D) "NET REAL PROPERTY TAX" MEANS THE REAL PROPERTY TAXES ASSESSED ON 18 THE RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY OWNED AND OCCUPIED BY THE TAXPAYER OR 19 TAXPAYERS AFTER ANY EXEMPTION OR ABATEMENT RECEIVED PURSUANT TO THE REAL 20 PROPERTY TAX LAW. 21 (2) CREDIT. A QUALIFIED TAXPAYER SHALL BE ALLOWED A CREDIT AGAINST THE 22 TAXES IMPOSED BY THIS ARTICLE, EQUAL TO SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE AMOUNT 23 WHICH THE TAXPAYER'S NET REAL PROPERTY TAX EXCEEDS THE TAXPAYER'S MAXI- 24 MUM REAL PROPERTY TAX, AS DETERMINED BY PARAGRAPH THREE OF THIS 25 SUBSECTION. IF SUCH CREDIT EXCEEDS THE TAX FOR SUCH TAXABLE YEAR, AS 26 REDUCED BY THE OTHER CREDITS PERMITTED BY THIS ARTICLE, THE QUALIFIED 27 TAXPAYER MAY RECEIVE, AND THE COMPTROLLER, SUBJECT TO A CERTIFICATE OF EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00031-01-9 S. 4165 2 1 THE DEPARTMENT, SHALL PAY AS AN OVERPAYMENT, WITHOUT INTEREST, ANY 2 EXCESS BETWEEN SUCH TAX AS SO REDUCED AND THE AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT. IF A 3 QUALIFIED TAXPAYER IS NOT REQUIRED TO FILE A RETURN PURSUANT TO SECTION 4 SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE, A QUALIFIED TAXPAYER MAY NEVER- 5 THELESS RECEIVE AND THE COMPTROLLER, SUBJECT TO A CERTIFICATE OF THE 6 DEPARTMENT, SHALL PAY AS AN OVERPAYMENT THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT, 7 WITHOUT INTEREST. 8 (3) MAXIMUM REAL PROPERTY TAX. A QUALIFIED TAXPAYER'S MAXIMUM REAL 9 PROPERTY TAX SHALL BE DETERMINED AS FOLLOWS: 10 HOUSEHOLD GROSS INCOME MAXIMUM REAL PROPERTY TAX 11 LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE FOUR PERCENT OF THE 12 THOUSAND DOLLARS HOUSEHOLD GROSS INCOME 13 MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE FIVE PERCENT OF THE 14 THOUSAND DOLLARS, BUT HOUSEHOLD GROSS INCOME 15 LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 16 FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS 17 MORE THAN FIFTY THOUSAND SIX PERCENT OF THE 18 DOLLARS, BUT LESS THAN OR HOUSEHOLD GROSS INCOME 19 EQUAL TO ONE HUNDRED 20 THOUSAND DOLLARS 21 MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED SEVEN PERCENT OF 22 THOUSAND DOLLARS, BUT THE HOUSEHOLD 23 LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO GROSS INCOME 24 ONE HUNDRED FIFTY 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS 26 MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHT PERCENT OF 27 FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, THE HOUSEHOLD 28 BUT LESS THAN OR EQUAL GROSS INCOME 29 TO TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND 30 DOLLARS 31 MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED NINE PERCENT 32 THOUSAND DOLLARS, BUT OF THE HOUSE- 33 LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO HOLD GROSS 34 TWO HUNDRED FIFTY INCOME 35 THOUSAND DOLLARS 36 MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED NO LIMITATION 37 FIFTY THOUSAND 38 DOLLARS 39 (4) EXCLUSIONS FROM ELIGIBILITY. NO CREDIT SHALL BE GRANTED UNDER THIS 40 SUBSECTION: 41 (A) IF THE QUALIFIED TAXPAYER'S HOUSEHOLD GROSS INCOME EXCEEDS TWO 42 HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS; OR 43 (B) THE QUALIFIED TAXPAYER RECEIVED THE SCHOOL TAX RELIEF EXEMPTION, 44 PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX 45 LAW, DURING THE TAXABLE YEAR. 46 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 47 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply to 48 taxable years commencing on or after such date.