Assembly Bill A8938

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to hotel and motel tax in Dutchess county

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A8938 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Taxation
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 208 of 1983

2023-A8938 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the tax the county of Dutchess can impose and collect on the occupancy of hotels, motels, boarding houses, conference centers and tourist homes from 4 percent to 5 percent.

2023-A8938 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8938
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BEEPHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend to amend chapter 208 of the laws  of  1983  relating  to
   enabling  the  county of Dutchess to impose and collect taxes on occu-
   pancy of hotel, motel, boarding house, conference  center  or  tourist
   home  in Dutchess county, in relation to authorizing an additional one
   percent tax

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 1 of chapter 208 of the laws of
 1983 relating to enabling the county of Dutchess to impose  and  collect
 taxes on occupancy of hotel, motel, boarding house, conference center or
 tourist  home  in Dutchess county, as amended by chapter 140 of the laws
 of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
   (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the  contrary,  the
 county of Dutchess is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend
 local  laws imposing in such county a tax in addition to any tax author-
 ized and imposed pursuant to article twenty-nine of the tax law such  as
 the  legislature  has or would have the power and authority to impose on
 persons occupying hotel, motel, boarding  house,  conference  center  or
 tourist home rooms in such county. The rates of such tax shall be [four]
 FIVE  percent  of the per diem rental rate charged to occupants for each
 room, provided, however, such tax shall not be applicable to a permanent
 resident of a hotel, motel, boarding house, conference center or tourist
 home. For the purposes of this section  the  term  "permanent  resident"
 shall  mean  a  person  occupying  any  room or rooms in a hotel, motel,
 boarding house, conference center or tourist  home  room  for  at  least
 sixty consecutive days.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14154-01-4

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