STATE OF NEW YORK
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4057--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2025
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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-
9 five and twenty-five thousand dollars for taxable years beginning on or
10 after 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-
18 ary first, two thousand twenty-five and twenty-five thousand dollars for
19 taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thousand twenty-
20 five].
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.
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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 January
11 first, two thousand twenty-five, if the amount of credit allowable under
12 this subsection shall exceed the taxpayer's tax for such year, the
13 excess may be carried over to the following year or years and may be
14 deducted 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 with
28 the rehabilitation of a qualified historic home unless at least five
29 percent of the total expenditures made in the rehabilitation process are
30 allocable 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;
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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.