Authorizes municipalities to adopt a local law, ordinance or resolution providing for a sales tax exemption for clothing and footwear after March 1, 2022 and no later than August 1, 2022; provides for the repeal of such provisions on January 1, 2023.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10640
IN ASSEMBLY
July 6, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Griffin) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing municipalities
to adopt a sales tax exemption for clothing and footwear after March
first, two thousand twenty-two; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (d) of section 1210 of the tax law, as amended
2 by section 4 of part WW of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (d) A local law, ordinance or resolution imposing any tax pursuant to
5 this section, increasing or decreasing the rate of such tax, repealing
6 or suspending such tax, exempting from such tax the energy sources and
7 services described in paragraph three of subdivision (a) or of subdivi-
8 sion (b) of this section or changing the rate of tax imposed on such
9 energy sources and services or providing for the credit or refund
10 described in clause six of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred
11 nineteen of this chapter, or electing or repealing the exemption for
12 residential solar equipment and electricity in subdivision (ee) of
13 section eleven hundred fifteen of this article, or the exemption for
14 commercial solar equipment and electricity in subdivision (ii) of
15 section eleven hundred fifteen of this article, or electing or repealing
16 the exemption for commercial fuel cell electricity generating systems
17 equipment and electricity generated by such equipment in subdivision
18 (kk) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this article must go into
19 effect only on one of the following dates: March first, June first,
20 September first or December first; provided, that a local law, ordinance
21 or resolution providing for the exemption described in paragraph thirty
22 of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter
23 [or] may go into effect no later than August first; and, provided
24 further, that a local law, ordinance or resolution repealing [any such]
25 the exemption described in paragraph thirty of subdivision (a) of
26 section eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter or a local law, ordinance
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 or resolution providing for a refund or credit described in subdivision
2 (d) of section eleven hundred nineteen of this chapter or repealing such
3 provision so provided must go into effect only on March first. No such
4 local law, ordinance or resolution shall be effective unless a certified
5 copy of such law, ordinance or resolution is mailed by registered or
6 certified mail to the commissioner at the commissioner's office in Alba-
7 ny at least ninety days prior to the date it is to become effective.
8 However, the commissioner may waive and reduce such ninety-day minimum
9 notice requirement to a mailing of such certified copy by registered or
10 certified mail within a period of not less than thirty days prior to
11 such effective date if the commissioner deems such action to be consist-
12 ent with the commissioner's duties under section twelve hundred fifty of
13 this article and the commissioner acts by resolution. Where the
14 restriction provided for in section twelve hundred twenty-three of this
15 article as to the effective date of a tax and the notice requirement
16 provided for therein are applicable and have not been waived, the
17 restriction and notice requirement in section twelve hundred twenty-
18 three of this article shall also apply.
19 § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act or if any application
20 thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of
21 this act and the application of the provision to other persons and
22 circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
24 deemed repealed on January 1, 2023.
