S04057 Summary:
| BILL NO | S04057A |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A05453-A |
| SPONSOR | FAHY |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §606, Tax L; amd §14.05, Pks & Rec L | |
| Extends the benefit window of the historic homeownership rehabilitation tax credit; requires additional reporting on the utilization of such credit. | |
S04057 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4057--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the tax law and the parks, recreation and historic pres- ervation law, in relation to extending the historic homeownership rehabilitation tax credit and requiring additional reporting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of subsection (pp) of section 606 of the 2 tax law, paragraph 2 as amended by section 4 of part RR of chapter 59 of 3 the laws of 2018 and paragraph 3 as added by chapter 547 of the laws of 4 2006, are amended and a new paragraph 13 is added to read as follows: 5 (2) (A) With respect to any particular residence of a taxpayer, the 6 credit allowed under paragraph one of this subsection shall not exceed 7 fifty thousand dollars for taxable years beginning on or after January 8 first, two thousand ten [and before January first, two thousand twenty-9five and twenty-five thousand dollars for taxable years beginning on or10after January first, two thousand twenty-five]. In the case of a 11 [husband and wife] married couple, the amount of the credit shall be 12 divided between them equally or in such other manner as they may both 13 elect. If a taxpayer incurs qualified rehabilitation expenditures in 14 relation to more than one residence in the same year, the total amount 15 of credit allowed under paragraph one of this subsection for all such 16 expenditures shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars for taxable years 17 beginning on or after January first, two thousand ten [and before Janu-18ary first, two thousand twenty-five and twenty-five thousand dollars for19taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thousand twenty-20five]. 21 (B) For taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thou- 22 sand ten [and before January first, two thousand twenty-five], if the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08172-04-5S. 4057--A 2 1 amount of credit allowable under this subsection shall exceed the 2 taxpayer's tax for such year, and the taxpayer's New York adjusted gross 3 income for such year does not exceed sixty thousand dollars, the excess 4 shall be treated as an overpayment of tax to be credited or refunded in 5 accordance with the provisions of section six hundred eighty-six of this 6 article, provided, however, that no interest shall be paid thereon. If 7 the taxpayer's New York adjusted gross income for such year exceeds 8 sixty thousand dollars, the excess credit [that] may be carried over to 9 the following year or years and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax 10 for such year or years. [For taxable years beginning on or after January11first, two thousand twenty-five, if the amount of credit allowable under12this subsection shall exceed the taxpayer's tax for such year, the13excess may be carried over to the following year or years and may be14deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or years.] 15 (3)(A) The term "qualified rehabilitation expenditure" means, for 16 purposes of this subsection, any amount properly chargeable to a capital 17 account: 18 (i) in connection with the certified rehabilitation of a qualified 19 historic home, and 20 (ii) for property for which depreciation would be allowable under 21 section 168 of the internal revenue code if the qualified historic home 22 were used in a trade or business. 23 (B) Such term shall not include (i) the cost of acquiring any building 24 or interest therein, (ii) any expenditure attributable to the enlarge- 25 ment of an existing building, or (iii) any expenditure made prior to 26 January first, two thousand seven. 27 (C) [Such term shall not include any expenditure in connection with28the rehabilitation of a qualified historic home unless at least five29percent of the total expenditures made in the rehabilitation process are30allocable to the rehabilitation of the exterior of such building.31(D)] If only a portion of a building is used as a residence of the 32 taxpayer, only qualified rehabilitation expenditures which are properly 33 allocable to such residential portion shall be taken into account under 34 this subsection. 35 (13) The commissioner shall report annually on or before the first day 36 of November, on the aggregate amount of credits claimed and awarded 37 pursuant to this subsection on returns filed during the preceding calen- 38 dar year. Such report shall be provided to the governor, temporary 39 president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate 40 finance committee and chair of the assembly ways and means committee, 41 shall be made publicly available on the department's website. 42 § 2. Section 14.05 of the parks, recreation and historic preservation 43 law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 44 5. The commissioner shall report annually on or before the first day 45 of November, on the tax credit projects applied for pursuant to 46 subsection (pp) of section six hundred six of the tax law on returns 47 filed during the preceding calendar year. Such report shall be provided 48 to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the 49 assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair of the assem- 50 bly ways and means committee, shall be made publicly available on the 51 office's website and shall include the following information: 52 (a) the number and value of tax credit projects applied for during the 53 state fiscal year, organized by municipality and county, and project 54 size;S. 4057--A 3 1 (b) the number and value of tax credit projects certified by the 2 office during the state fiscal year, organized by municipality and coun- 3 ty, and project size; 4 (c) the total value of credits certified annually for each of the 5 taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thousand seven to 6 the present, by municipality and county; 7 (d) the number of housing units before and after rehabilitation; and 8 (e) the number of projects certified for state credits by the office. 9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable 10 years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.