Extends the authority of the county of Orange to impose an additional rate of sales and compensating use taxes; provides for the use of the tax funds collected.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7630
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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, in relation to extending the authority of
the county of Orange to impose an additional rate of sales and compen-
sating use taxes; and providing for the use of the tax funds collected
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause 35 of subparagraph (i) of the opening paragraph of
2 section 1210 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 268 of the laws of
3 2023, is amended to read as follows:
4 (35) the county of Orange is hereby further authorized and empowered
5 to adopt and amend local laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such
6 taxes at a rate which is three-quarters of one percent additional to the
7 three percent rate authorized above in this paragraph for such county
8 for the period beginning June first, two thousand four, and ending
9 November thirtieth, two thousand [twenty-five] twenty-seven;
10 § 2. Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of section 1262 of the tax law,
11 net collections from any additional rate of sales and compensating use
12 taxes which may be imposed by the county of Orange during the period
13 commencing December 1, 2025, and ending November 30, 2027, pursuant to
14 the authority of section 1210 of the tax law, shall be paid to the coun-
15 ty of Orange and shall be used by such county solely for county purposes
16 and shall not be subject to any revenue distribution agreement entered
17 into pursuant to the authority of subdivision (c) of section 1262 of the
18 tax law.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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