Establishes a reduction of federal adjusted gross income, for state personal income tax purposes, for student loan interest payments made by taxpayers.
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. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a reduction of
federal adjusted gross income, for state personal income tax purposes,
for student loan interest payments made by taxpayers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by
2 adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
3 (44)(A) The difference between the interest paid on student loans by
4 the taxpayer and the amount of such interest deducted by such taxpayer
5 to calculate his or her federal adjusted gross income, not to exceed
6 five thousand dollars.
7 (B) For the purposes of this paragraph, "student loan" shall have the
8 same meaning as ascribed to such term by subparagraph (B) of paragraph
9 forty-two of this subsection, as added by chapter four hundred fifty-six
10 of the laws of two thousand seventeen.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to the
12 taxable year in which it shall take effect and to all subsequent taxable
13 years.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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