Bill Text: NY S03055 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Eliminates state sales and compensating use taxes on motor fuels and diesel motor fuels and authorizes localities to eliminate such taxes at the local level.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - PRINT NUMBER 3055A [S03055 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03055-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3055--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 2, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG, FUNKE, NOZZOLIO, RANZENHOFER -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Energy and Telecommunications -- recommitted to  the  Committee  on
          Energy and Telecommunications in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to eliminating state sales  and
          compensating  use  taxes  on  motor  fuels  and diesel motor fuels and
          authorizing localities to eliminate such taxes at the local level
          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) Motor fuel and diesel motor fuel.
     4    § 2. Subdivision (b) of section 1107 of the  tax  law  is  amended  by
     5  adding a new clause 12 to read as follows:
     6    (12)  Except  as  otherwise provided by law, the exemption provided in
     7  paragraph forty-four  of  subdivision  (a)  of  section  eleven  hundred
     8  fifteen  of  this  article  relating to motor fuel and diesel motor fuel
     9  shall be applicable pursuant to a local  law,  ordinance  or  resolution
    10  adopted  by  a city subject to the provisions of this section. Such city
    11  is empowered to adopt or repeal such a local law,  ordinance  or  resol-
    12  ution.  Such  adoption or repeal shall also be deemed to amend any local
    13  law, ordinance or resolution enacted  by  such  a  city  imposing  taxes
    14  pursuant  to  the authority of subdivision (a) of section twelve hundred
    15  ten of this chapter.
    16    § 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the tax law, as
    17  amended by section 3 of part Z of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2015,  is
    18  amended to read as follows:
    19    (1) Either, all of the taxes described in article twenty-eight of this
    20  chapter,  at  the same uniform rate, as to which taxes all provisions of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05955-02-6
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