Bill Text: NY S06487 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes an income tax deduction for any payments made on student loans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-29 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06487 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06487-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6487
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 29, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  BALL  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
         ment Operations
       AN ACT to amend the tax law, in  relation  to  establishing  a  personal
         income  tax  modification  reducing  federal adjusted gross income for
         payments of principal and interest on  any  indebtedness  incurred  to
         attend and graduate from any institution of higher education
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended  by
    2  adding a new paragraph 41 to read as follows:
    3    (41)  THE AMOUNT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAID BY A RESIDENT TAXPAYER
    4  ON ANY INDEBTEDNESS INCURRED FOR ATTENDANCE AT AND GRADUATION  FROM  ANY
    5  INSTITUTION  OF  HIGHER  EDUCATION,  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF
    6  SECTION TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
    7    S 2. This act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and  shall  apply  to
    8  payments  of  principal and interest made during any tax year commencing
    9  on or after January 1, 2014, regardless of  when  the  indebtedness  was
   10  incurred.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11974-02-3
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