Bill Text: NY S07445 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Changes the definition of "employment number" with respect to empire zones to include employees of contract operators.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-18 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07445 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07445-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 7445                                                 A. 10282
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 18, 2012
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       IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed,  and  when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Investi-
         gations and Government Operations
       IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. MURRAY -- read once  and  referred
         to the Committee on Ways and Means
       AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the definition of employment
         number  with  respect  to  the  empire  zones program to allow for the
         eligibility of employees of contract operators
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  1  of subdivision (g) of section 14 of the tax
    2  law, as amended by section 1 of part Z-1 of chapter 109 of the  laws  of
    3  2006, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (1)  The  term  "employment  number"  shall mean the average number of
    5  individuals, excluding general executive officers  (in  the  case  of  a
    6  corporation), employed full-time by the enterprise for at least one-half
    7  of  the  taxable  year. Such number shall be computed by determining the
    8  number of such individuals employed by the taxpayer on the  thirty-first
    9  day  of March, the thirtieth day of June, the thirtieth day of September
   10  and the thirty-first day of December during the applicable taxable year,
   11  adding together the number of  such  individuals  determined  to  be  so
   12  employed  on  each of such dates and dividing the sum so obtained by the
   13  number of such dates occurring within such applicable taxable year. Such
   14  number shall not include individuals employed within  the  state  within
   15  the  immediately preceding sixty months by a related person to the QEZE,
   16  as such term "related person" is defined in subparagraph  (c)  of  para-
   17  graph  three of subsection (b) of section four hundred sixty-five of the
   18  internal revenue code.  For  this  purpose,  a  "related  person"  shall
   19  include  an  entity  which would have qualified as a "related person" to
   20  the QEZE if it had not been dissolved, liquidated, merged  with  another
   21  entity or otherwise ceased to exist or operate.  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, SUCH
   22  NUMBER MAY INCLUDE INDIVIDUALS EMPLOYED FULL-TIME OR AS FULL-TIME EQUIV-
   23  ALENTS  BY  A  BUSINESS  ENTITY  OTHER THAN THE QEZE, PROVIDED, (I) SUCH
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 7445                             2                           A. 10282
    1  INDIVIDUALS WORK FULL-TIME OR ARE FULL-TIME EQUIVALENTS  AT  THE  QEZE'S
    2  EMPIRE  ZONE  LOCATION  PURSUANT TO A WRITTEN AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO FOR
    3  MANAGEMENT AND/OR OPERATIONAL SERVICES BETWEEN THE QEZE AND THE BUSINESS
    4  ENTITY  WHICH  EMPLOYS  SUCH INDIVIDUALS, (II) THE BUSINESS ENTITY WHICH
    5  EMPLOYS SUCH INDIVIDUALS IS NOT CERTIFIED UNDER  ARTICLE  EIGHTEEN-B  OF
    6  THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW WITHIN SUCH ZONE, AND (III) ALL OTHER REQUIRE-
    7  MENTS OF THIS PARAGRAPH REGARDING SUCH INDIVIDUALS ARE SATISFIED.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
    9  years beginning on or after January 1, 2012.
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