Authorizes localities to provide for an additional real property tax exemption for senior citizens who meet the income eligibility limits and other criteria to the extent of sixty-five percent of the assessed valuation of such real property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6362--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 5, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
-- recommitted to the Committee on Real Property Taxation in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to providing an
additional real property tax exemption for certain senior citizens
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 467 of the real
2 property tax law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 4 to read as
3 follows:
4 (4) Notwithstanding the maximum exemption percentage permitted pursu-
5 ant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision, any local law, ordinance or
6 resolution adopted pursuant to this section may be amended, or a local
7 law, ordinance or resolution may be adopted, to create additional annual
8 income categories and corresponding exemption percentages for households
9 making less than the maximum income eligibility level of such municipal
10 corporation as provided in this subdivision (represented in the herein-
11 below schedule as M) pursuant to the following schedule:
12 ANNUALINCOMEPERCENTAGEOFASSESSEDVALUATION
13 EXEMPTFROMTAXATION
14 Lessthan(M)but
15 morethan(M-$1,000)50%
16 Lessthan(M-$1,000)but
17 morethan(M-$2,000)55%
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Lessthan(M-$2,000)but60%
2 morethan(M-$3,000);and
3 Lessthan(M-$3,000)65%
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
5 years beginning on and after January 1, 2024.