Bill Text: NY S06907 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the statewide pre-k fund from revenues received through the stock transfer tax; decreases percentage of tax rebate currently allowed in order to fund pre-kindergarten.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-04 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06907 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06907-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6907
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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 and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
          the stock transfer tax and to creating the statewide pre-k fund
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 280-a of the tax law,  as  amended
     2  by chapter 578 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  subdivision  fifteen  of this
     4  section, where a tax shall have been paid under this article  a  portion
     5  of  the  amount paid shall be allowed as a rebate and such portion shall
     6  be paid to the taxpayer but only to the extent that moneys are available
     7  for the payment of such rebates in the  stock  transfer  incentive  fund
     8  established  pursuant  to section ninety-two-i of the state finance law.
     9  The portion of the amount of tax paid which is to be allowed as a rebate
    10  shall be thirty percent of the tax incurred  and  paid  on  transactions
    11  subject  to the stock transfer tax occurring on and after October first,
    12  nineteen hundred seventy-nine and  on  or  before  September  thirtieth,
    13  nineteen  hundred  eighty and sixty percent of the tax incurred and paid
    14  on such transactions occurring on  and  after  October  first,  nineteen
    15  hundred  eighty  and  on or before September thirtieth, nineteen hundred
    16  eighty-one and all of the amount of  tax  incurred  and  paid  shall  be
    17  allowed  as  a  rebate on transactions subject to the stock transfer tax
    18  occurring on and after October first, nineteen hundred eighty-one and on
    19  or before September thirtieth, two thousand sixteen, and thirty  percent
    20  of the tax incurred and paid shall be allowed as a rebate on such trans-
    21  actions occurring on and after October first, two thousand sixteen.
    22    §  2.  Subdivisions  3 and 4 of section 92-b of the state finance law,
    23  subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 878 of the laws of 1977, subdivision
    24  4 as amended by chapter 724 of the laws of 1979, are amended to read  as
    25  follows:
    26    3.  The  moneys received from such tax and other sources in such fund,
    27  after deducting the amount the  commissioner  of  taxation  and  finance
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01685-03-6
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