Provides a resident personal income tax exemption to individuals caring for elderly dependents over the age of 62 who reside with such individuals and who are entitled to an exemption for federal income tax purposes; requires the office for the aging to report to the governor and the legislature regarding the effects of such tax credit, its use or non-use and the extent to which such credit aids families.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to reports by the office for
the aging regarding assistance to families for caring for elderly
dependents; and to amend the tax law, in relation to providing an
additional personal income tax exemption for resident individuals in
certain cases
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 213 of the elder law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. The office for the aging shall biennially report to the governor
4 and legislature concerning the effects of subsection (c) of section six
5 hundred sixteen of the tax law on programs offered under the auspices or
6 with the support, direct or indirect, of the office for the aging. Such
7 report shall include, but not be limited to, the use or non-use of this
8 incentive in coordination with such programs, the extent to which this
9 incentive has aided families in caring for elderly dependents, and coor-
10 dination by the office of the availability of this assistance with other
11 programs for the aged and recommendations for public information activ-
12 ities.
13 § 2. Section 616 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection
14 (c) to read as follows:
15 (c) Additional exemption. In addition to the exemptions provided for
16 in subsection (a) of this section for taxable years beginning after
17 December thirty-first, two thousand seventeen, a resident individual
18 shall be allowed a New York exemption in an amount equal to the
19 exemption provided for in subsection (a) of this section for each
20 dependent who is of the age of sixty-two or older, who resides with such
21 resident individual, and for whom the resident individual is entitled to
22 an exemption for the taxable year for federal income tax purposes,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 provided however, that if the New York income taxes of a husband and
2 wife are separately determined but their federal income tax is deter-
3 mined on a joint return, only one of them, at their option, shall be
4 entitled to the additional exemption provided for in this subsection.
5 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
