Bill Text: NY S07192 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides an exemption to the retail sale of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles from state sales and compensating use taxes; authorizes local governments to adopt similar incentives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-23 - PRINT NUMBER 7192A [S07192 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7192
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 1, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- 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 exempting the sale of  plug-
         in  hybrid  electric  vehicles  from  state sales and compensating use
         taxes, and to authorize cities and counties to grant such exemption
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended
    2  by adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
    3    (44) THE RECEIPTS FROM THE RETAIL SALE OF NEW PLUG-IN HYBRID  ELECTRIC
    4  VEHICLES.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH THE TERM "PLUG-IN HYBRID ELEC-
    5  TRIC VEHICLE" MEANS A MOTOR VEHICLE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
    6  TWENTY-FIVE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, THAT:
    7    (I) DRAWS PROPULSION USING A TRACTION BATTERY WITH AT LEAST FOUR KILO-
    8  WATT HOURS OF CAPACITY;
    9    (II) USES AN EXTERNAL SOURCE OF ENERGY TO RECHARGE SUCH BATTERY;
   10    (III) THE ORIGINAL USE OF WHICH COMMENCES WITH THE TAXPAYER;
   11    (IV)  IS ACQUIRED FOR USE OR LEASE BY THE TAXPAYER AND NOT FOR RESALE;
   12  AND
   13    (V) IS MADE BY A MANUFACTURER.
   14    S 2. Section 1160 of the tax law is amended by adding a  new  subdivi-
   15  sion (c) to read as follows:
   16    (C)  THE  NEW  AND  USED  PLUG-IN  HYBRID  ELECTRIC VEHICLES EXEMPTION
   17  PROVIDED FOR IN PARAGRAPH FORTY-FOUR OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEV-
   18  EN HUNDRED FIFTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL NOT APPLY TO OR LIMIT THE IMPO-
   19  SITION OF THE TAX IMPOSED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
   20    S 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the tax law, as
   21  amended by section 3 of part GG of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2010,  is
   22  amended to read as follows:
   23    (1) Either, all of the taxes described in article twenty-eight of this
   24  chapter,  at  the same uniform rate, as to which taxes all provisions of
   25  the local laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such taxes  shall  be
   26  identical,  except as to rate and except as otherwise provided, with the
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15536-01-2
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    1  corresponding provisions in such  article  twenty-eight,  including  the
    2  definition  and  exemption  provisions  of  such  article, so far as the
    3  provisions of such article twenty-eight can be made  applicable  to  the
    4  taxes  imposed  by  such  city  or  county and with such limitations and
    5  special provisions as are set forth in this article. The  taxes  author-
    6  ized  under  this  subdivision  may  not  be imposed by a city or county
    7  unless the local law, ordinance or resolution imposes such taxes  so  as
    8  to  include  all  portions  and all types of receipts, charges or rents,
    9  subject to state tax under  sections  eleven  hundred  five  and  eleven
   10  hundred ten of this chapter, except as otherwise provided. (i) Any local
   11  law,  ordinance  or  resolution  enacted  by  any  city of less than one
   12  million or by any county or school district, imposing the taxes  author-
   13  ized by this subdivision, shall, notwithstanding any provision of law to
   14  the  contrary,  exclude from the operation of such local taxes all sales
   15  of tangible personal  property  for  use  or  consumption  directly  and
   16  predominantly  in  the  production  of  tangible personal property, gas,
   17  electricity, refrigeration or steam, for sale, by  manufacturing,  proc-
   18  essing,  generating,  assembly,  refining, mining or extracting; and all
   19  sales of tangible personal property for use or consumption predominantly
   20  either in the production of tangible personal  property,  for  sale,  by
   21  farming  or  in  a commercial horse boarding operation, or in both; and,
   22  unless such city, county or school district elects otherwise, shall omit
   23  the provision for credit or refund contained in clause six  of  subdivi-
   24  sion  (a)  or subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred nineteen of this
   25  chapter. (ii) Any local law, ordinance  or  resolution  enacted  by  any
   26  city,  county  or school district, imposing the taxes authorized by this
   27  subdivision, shall omit the residential solar energy  systems  equipment
   28  exemption provided for in subdivision (ee) [and], the clothing and foot-
   29  wear  exemption  provided  for  in paragraph thirty AND THE NEW AND USED
   30  PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES EXEMPTION  PROVIDED  FOR  IN  PARAGRAPH
   31  FORTY-FOUR  of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this
   32  chapter, unless such city, county or school district elects otherwise as
   33  to either such residential solar energy systems equipment  exemption  or
   34  such clothing and footwear exemption OR SUCH NEW AND USED PLUG-IN HYBRID
   35  ELECTRIC VEHICLE EXEMPTION.
   36    S  4.  Section 1210 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
   37  sion (p) to read as follows:
   38    (P) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF STATE OR LOCAL  LAW,  ORDI-
   39  NANCE OR RESOLUTION TO THE CONTRARY:
   40    (1)  ANY  CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE IN WHICH THE
   41  TAXES IMPOSED BY SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED SEVEN OF  THIS  CHAPTER  ARE  IN
   42  EFFECT,  ACTING THROUGH ITS LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BODY, IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED
   43  AND EMPOWERED TO ELECT TO PROVIDE THE SAME EXEMPTIONS FROM SUCH TAXES AS
   44  THE NEW AND USED PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES EXEMPTION  FROM  STATE
   45  SALES  AND  COMPENSATING  USE TAXES DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH FORTY-FOUR OF
   46  SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  BY
   47  ENACTING  A  RESOLUTION  IN  THE FORM SET FORTH IN PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS
   48  SUBDIVISION; WHEREUPON, UPON COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF  SUBDIVI-
   49  SIONS  (D)  AND  (E)  OF THIS SECTION, SUCH ENACTMENT OF SUCH RESOLUTION
   50  SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE AN AMENDMENT TO SUCH SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED  SEVEN
   51  AND  SUCH  SECTION  ELEVEN  HUNDRED SEVEN SHALL BE DEEMED TO INCORPORATE
   52  SUCH EXEMPTIONS AS IF THEY HAD BEEN DULY ENACTED BY THE  STATE  LEGISLA-
   53  TURE AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR.
   54    (2)  FORM  OF RESOLUTION: BE IT ENACTED BY THE (INSERT PROPER TITLE OF
   55  LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BODY) AS FOLLOWS:
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    1    SECTION ONE.  RECEIPTS  FROM  SALES  OF  AND  CONSIDERATION  GIVEN  OR
    2  CONTRACTED  TO  BE  GIVEN  FOR, OR FOR THE USE OF, PROPERTY AND SERVICES
    3  EXEMPT FROM STATE SALES AND COMPENSATING USE TAXES PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH
    4  44 OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION 1115 OF  THE  TAX  LAW  SHALL  ALSO  BE
    5  EXEMPT  FROM  SALES AND COMPENSATING USE TAXES IMPOSED IN THIS JURISDIC-
    6  TION.
    7    SECTION TWO. THIS RESOLUTION SHALL TAKE EFFECT MARCH  1,  (INSERT  THE
    8  YEAR, BUT NOT EARLIER THAN THE YEAR 2012) AND SHALL APPLY TO SALES MADE,
    9  SERVICES  RENDERED  AND USES OCCURRING ON AND AFTER THAT DATE IN ACCORD-
   10  ANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS IN SECTIONS 1106,  1216
   11  AND 1217 OF THE NEW YORK TAX LAW.
   12    S 5. This act shall take effect October 1, 2012.
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