Relates to providing a tax credit for qualified expenses relating to healthy living; provides such credit shall equal, up to one thousand dollars, the amount paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year for qualified expenses relating to healthy living.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1495
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BARCLAY, HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing a tax credit for
qualified expenses relating to healthy living
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 (ss) to read as follows:
3 (ss) Healthy living credit. (1) A taxpayer shall be allowed a credit,
4 to be computed as provided in this subsection, against the tax imposed
5 pursuant to section six hundred one of this part. The amount of credit
6 shall equal, up to one thousand dollars, the amount paid by the taxpayer
7 during the taxable year for qualified expenses relating to healthy
8 living.
9 (2) For the purposes of this subsection, "qualified expenses relating
10 to healthy living" shall mean expenses relating to the purchase of exer-
11 cise equipment, and the cost of membership at a gym or other similar
12 facility, or other class involving physical activity including but not
13 limited to sports, dance, or martial arts, and other expenses as deter-
14 mined by the commissioner to be expenses relating to healthy living.
15 (3) A taxpayer who is a parent or legal guardian, or another taxpayer
16 filing a joint individual income tax return with such taxpayer, who paid
17 for qualified expenses relating to healthy living for his or her child
18 shall be allowed a tax credit pursuant to this subsection.
19 (4) In no event shall the amount of the credit provided by this
20 subsection exceed the taxpayer's tax for the taxable year. However, if
21 the amount of credit otherwise allowable pursuant to this subsection for
22 any taxable year results in such excess amount, any amount of credit not
23 deductible in such taxable year may be carried over to the following
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 year or years and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year
2 or years.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
4 years beginning on and after the first of January next succeeding the
5 date on which it shall have become a law.
