Bill Text: NY S05030 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides a tax credit to certain landowners who allow snowmobile access on such land.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE [S05030 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S05030-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5030

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 18, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GRIFFO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, OBERACKER, ORTT, WALCZYK
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Budget and Revenue

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing a  tax  credit  to
          certain landowners who allow snowmobile access on such land

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 606 of the tax law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subsection (n-3) to read as follows:
     3    (n-3)  Credit for certain landowners who allow snowmobile access.  (1)
     4  An individual taxpayer who meets the eligibility standards in  paragraph
     5  two  of  this  subsection  shall  be  allowed a credit against the taxes
     6  imposed by this article in the amount specified in  paragraph  three  of
     7  this subsection.
     8    (2)  To  be eligible for the credit, the taxpayer (or taxpayers filing
     9  joint returns) on the personal income tax return must  allow  snowmobile
    10  access in the form of a state-funded snowmobile trail or portion thereof
    11  on property owned by the taxpayer.
    12    (3) A taxpayer shall be allowed a credit equal to ten cents per linear
    13  foot  of  state-funded snowmobile trail on eligible property pursuant to
    14  paragraph two of this subsection.
    15    (4) The amount of the credit that may be claimed by a taxpayer  pursu-
    16  ant  to  this subsection shall not exceed seven hundred fifty dollars in
    17  any given year.
    18    (5) If the amount of credit allowable under this  subsection  for  any
    19  taxable  year  shall exceed the taxpayer's tax for such year, the excess
    20  allowed for a taxable year commencing prior to January first, two  thou-
    21  sand  twenty-six  may be carried over to the following year or years and
    22  may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or years,  but  in
    23  no  event  shall such credit be carried over to taxable years commencing
    24  on or after January first, two thousand thirty-six, and  any  amount  of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06759-01-5

        S. 5030                             2

     1  credit  allowed for a taxable year commencing on or after January first,
     2  two thousand twenty-six and not deductible in such year may  be  carried
     3  over  to  the ten taxable years next following such taxable year and may
     4  be  deducted  from the taxpayer's tax for such year or years. In lieu of
     5  carrying over any such excess, a taxpayer who is  eligible  pursuant  to
     6  paragraph  two  of  this  subsection  may, at their option, receive such
     7  excess as a refund. Any refund paid pursuant to this paragraph shall  be
     8  deemed  to  be  a refund of an overpayment of tax as provided in section
     9  six hundred eighty-six of  this  article,  provided,  however,  that  no
    10  interest shall be paid thereon.
    11    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    12  ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
    13  taxable  years  beginning on or after such date. The department of taxa-
    14  tion and finance is  authorized  to  promulgate  rules  and  regulations
    15  necessary  for  the  timely implementation of this act on or before such
    16  effective date.
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