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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Senate Bill S5068
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C) 60th Senate District
2019-S5068 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S5068 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5068 SPONSOR: RANZENHOFER TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the tax law, in relation to establish- ing a Hire-Now tax credit PURPOSE: To enact a Hire-Now tax credit and an additional incentive for hiring the unemployed. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: "HIRE-NOW-NY" TAX INCENTIVE: Our Hire-Now-NY proposal includes direct incentives for each new job employers create, a business would get a tax credit of up to $5,000 per employee for a maximum of three years. The credit will equal 6.85 percent of wages paid to the employee. The hires must be new employees. In order to qualify for the Hire-Now credit the employee must be hired by April 1, 2021 to encourage a quick boost in jobs.
2019-S5068 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5068 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RANZENHOFER, FUNKE, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a Hire-Now tax credit THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 44 to read as follows: § 44. HIRE-NOW TAX CREDIT. (A) ALLOWANCE OF CREDIT. A TAXPAYER, WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TAX UNDER ARTICLE NINE-A OR TWENTY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER AND WHICH CREATES A NEW JOB, SHALL BE ALLOWED A CREDIT AGAINST SUCH TAX. THE AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT ALLOWED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE PRODUCT OF 6.85 PERCENT AND THE GROSS WAGES PAID FOR EACH NEW EMPLOYEE. THE CREDIT SHALL NOT BE MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ANY NEW EMPLOYEE FOR ONE FULL YEAR OF EMPLOYMENT; IF A NEW EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN HIRED FOR LESS THAN A FULL TAX YEAR THIS AMOUNT SHALL BE PRORATED AND APPORTIONED TO EACH TAX YEAR BUT SHALL IN NO WAY DECREASE THE FULL THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF CREDIT ELIGIBILITY. THE TAXPAYER MAY CLAIM THIS CREDIT FOR EACH NEW EMPLOYEE FOR A PERIOD OF THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF EMPLOYMENT. THE TAXPAYER MAY OFFSET QUARTERLY ESTIMATED TAX RETURNS WITH THE AMOUNT OF THIS CREDIT EARNED IN ANY PREVIOUS QUARTER. (B) UNEMPLOYMENT ENHANCEMENT. FOR CALENDAR YEARS TWO THOUSAND TWENTY- ONE AND TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO IF A NEW EMPLOYEE WAS RECEIVING UNEM- PLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS AT THE TIME OF HIRE, AN ADDITIONAL THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR CREDIT WILL BE ALLOWED FOR THE FIRST FULL YEAR OF EMPLOYMENT. (C) DEFINITIONS. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS: (1) "NEW EMPLOYEE" SHALL MEAN ANY FULL TIME EMPLOYEE THAT IS HIRED BY THE TAXPAYER AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY AND BEFORE APRIL EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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