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                                   4177
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. KOLB, HAWLEY, PALMESANO, RA, RAIA, MONTESANO,
   BLANKENBUSH, GIGLIO, DiPIETRO, STEC, BRABENEC,  SMITH  --  Multi-Spon-
   sored by -- M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Ways and Means
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law, in relation to calculation of the earned
   income credit

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  1  of subsection (d) of section 606 of the tax
 law, as amended by section 1 of part Q of chapter  63  of  the  laws  of
 2000, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  General.  A taxpayer shall be allowed a credit as provided herein
 equal to (i) the applicable  percentage  of  the  earned  income  credit
 allowed  under  section  thirty-two of the internal revenue code for the
 same taxable year, (ii) reduced by the credit permitted under subsection
 (b) of this section.
   The applicable percentage shall be (i) seven and one-half percent  for
 taxable  years  beginning  in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-four,  (ii) ten
 percent for taxable years beginning  in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-five,
 (iii)  twenty percent for taxable years beginning after nineteen hundred
 ninety-five and  before  two  thousand,  (iv)  twenty-two  and  one-half
 percent  for  taxable  years  beginning in two thousand, (v) twenty-five
 percent for taxable years beginning in two thousand  one,  (vi)  twenty-
 seven  and  one-half percent for taxable years beginning in two thousand
 two, [and] (vii) thirty percent for taxable years beginning in two thou-
 sand three, AND (VIII) FORTY-FIVE PERCENT FOR TAXABLE YEARS BEGINNING IN
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY and thereafter.   Provided,  however,  that  if  the
 reversion  event,  as  defined in this paragraph, occurs, the applicable
 percentage shall be twenty percent for taxable years ending on or  after
 the  date  on  which  the  reversion event occurred. The reversion event
 shall be deemed to have occurred on the date on  which  federal  action,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD04304-01-9

 A. 4177                             2
 
 including  but  not  limited to, administrative, statutory or regulatory
 changes, materially reduces or eliminates New York state's allocation of
 the federal temporary assistance for  needy  families  block  grant,  or
 materially  reduces  the ability of the state to spend federal temporary
 assistance for needy families block grant funds for  the  earned  income
 credit  or  to  apply  state  general fund spending on the earned income
 credit toward the temporary assistance for needy  families  block  grant
 maintenance of effort requirement, and the commissioner of the office of
 temporary and disability assistance shall certify the date of such event
 to  the  commissioner of taxation and finance, the director of the divi-
 sion of the budget, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary presi-
 dent of the senate.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
 years beginning on and after January 1, 2020.