Bill Text: NY S06320 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Sets the rate of taxation on estates; provides that if the taxable estate exceeds the basic exclusion amount the credit shall be the amount of tax that would be due if the amount on which the tax is to be computed is equal to the basic exclusion amount.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06320 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06320-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6320--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- 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 the rate of the estate tax The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 952 of the tax 2 law, as added by section 2 of part X of chapter 59 of the laws of 2014, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 (1) A credit of the applicable credit amount shall be allowed against 5 the tax imposed by this section as provided in this subsection. In the 6 case of a decedent whose New York taxable estate is less than or equal 7 to the basic exclusion amount, the applicable credit amount shall be the 8 amount of tax that would be due under subsection (b) of this section on 9 such decedent's New York taxable estate. In the case of a decedent whose 10 New York taxable estate exceeds the basic exclusion amount [by an amount11that is less than or equal to five percent of such amount], the applica- 12 ble credit amount shall be the amount of tax that would be due under 13 subsection (b) of this section if the amount on which the tax is to be 14 computed [were] was equal to the basic exclusion amount [multiplied by15one minus a fraction, the numerator of which is the decedent's New York16taxable estate minus the basic exclusion amount, and the denominator of17which is five percent of the basic exclusion amount]. Provided, however, 18 that the credit allowed by this subsection shall not exceed the tax 19 imposed by this section[, and no credit shall be allowed to the estate20of any decedent whose New York taxable estate exceeds one hundred five21percent of the basic exclusion amount]. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01753-04-7