STATE OF NEW YORK
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6988
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to minimum wage reimbursement
credit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 38 of the tax law, as added by section 1 of part EE
2 of chapter 59 of the laws of 2013, is renumbered section 44 and subdivi-
3 sions (b) and (c) are amended to read as follows:
4 (b) An eligible employer is a corporation (including a New York S
5 corporation), a sole proprietorship, a limited liability company or a
6 partnership. An eligible employee is an individual who is (i) employed
7 by an eligible employer in New York state, (ii) paid at the minimum wage
8 rate as defined in article nineteen of the labor law during the taxable
9 year by the eligible employer, (iii) between the ages of sixteen and
10 nineteen during the period in which he or she is paid at such minimum
11 wage rate by the eligible employer, and (iv) a student during the period
12 in which he or she is paid at such minimum wage rate by the taxpayer.
13 For taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand
14 nineteen, an eligible employee is an individual who is (i) employed by
15 an eligible employer in New York state, (ii) paid at a rate that does
16 not exceed the minimum wage rate as defined in article nineteen of the
17 labor law plus fifty cents during the taxable year by the eligible
18 employer, (iii) between the ages of sixteen and nineteen during the
19 period in which he or she is paid at such rate that does not exceed such
20 minimum wage rate plus fifty cents by the eligible employer, and (iv) a
21 student during the period in which he or she is paid at such rate that
22 does not exceed such minimum wage rate plus fifty cents by the taxpayer.
23 (c) For taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thou-
24 sand fourteen and before January first, two thousand fifteen, the amount
25 of the credit allowed under this section shall be equal to the product
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of the total number of hours worked during the taxable year by eligible
2 employees for which they were paid at the minimum wage rate as defined
3 in article nineteen of the labor law and [seventy five] seventy-five
4 cents. For taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thou-
5 sand fifteen and before January first, two thousand sixteen, the amount
6 of the credit allowed under this section shall be equal to the product
7 of the total number of hours during the taxable year worked by eligible
8 employees for which they were paid at such minimum wage rate and one
9 dollar and thirty-one cents. For taxable years beginning on or after
10 January first, two thousand sixteen and before January first, two thou-
11 sand nineteen, the amount of the credit allowed under this section shall
12 be equal to the product of the total number of hours during the taxable
13 year worked by eligible employees for which they were paid at such mini-
14 mum wage rate and one dollar and thirty-five cents. For taxable years
15 beginning on or after January first, two thousand nineteen and before
16 January first, two thousand twenty-two, the amount of the credit allowed
17 under this section shall be equal to the product of the total number of
18 hours during the taxable year worked by eligible employees for which
19 they were paid at a rate that does not exceed such minimum wage rate
20 plus fifty cents and one dollar and thirty-five cents. Provided, howev-
21 er, if the federal minimum wage established by federal law pursuant to
22 29 U.S.C. section 206 or its successors is increased above eighty-five
23 percent of the minimum wage in article nineteen of the labor law, the
24 dollar amounts in this subdivision shall be reduced to the difference
25 between the minimum wage in article nineteen of the labor law and the
26 federal minimum wage. Such reduction would take effect on the date that
27 employers are required to pay such federal minimum wage.
28 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
29 years beginning on and after January 1, 2019.