STATE OF NEW YORK
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691
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 creating a local food and
products sourcing tax credit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 61 to read as follows:
3 61. Local food and products sourcing tax credit. 1. Businesses subject
4 to tax liability under article nine or nine-A of this chapter may claim
5 the local foods and products sourcing tax credit against any such
6 liability at the close of the tax year provided, however, that the
7 unused portion of any tax credit claimed shall not be carried forward
8 and applied in another tax year.
9 2. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the
10 following meanings:
11 (a) "local products", are any products grown, raised, produced, or
12 manufactured by a producer within the state of New York, from seed or
13 conception through final product;
14 (b) "producer", is an individual (whether acting individually or
15 through a cooperative, corporation, partnership, business association,
16 or educational institution) who is a farmer, student farmer, or manufac-
17 turer of foods or goods in New York state, it shall not however include
18 a wholesaler or distributor;
19 (c) "net sales", are the total sales of the business subject to tax.
20 3. The amount of the credit shall be proscribed according to the
21 following schedule:
22 (a) twenty percent of net sales are attributed to local products the
23 credit shall be one thousand five hundred dollars.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) forty percent of net sales are attributed to local products the
2 credit shall be three thousand dollars.
3 (c) sixty percent of net sales are attributed to local products the
4 credit shall be six thousand dollars.
5 (d) eighty percent of net sales are attributed to local products the
6 credit shall be twelve thousand dollars.
7 (e) one hundred percent of net sales are attributed to local products
8 the credit shall be twenty-five thousand dollars.
9 4. (a) Businesses claiming the local food and products sourcing tax
10 credit shall submit a computer-generated report with tax returns that
11 claim a tax credit.
12 (b) Such report shall include the name of the producer and the phys-
13 ical place of the business where the products are produced.
14 (c) The amount paid by grocer or business to the producer and the
15 amount of units purchased.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
