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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2024
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation  to  expanding  a  certain  tax
   credit  for  farmers  to  include the cost of construction housing for
   farm workers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (b) of subdivision 1 of
 section 210-B of the tax law, as amended by section 2 of part P of chap-
 ter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) A credit shall be allowed under this subdivision with  respect  to
 tangible personal property and other tangible property, including build-
 ings  and  structural  components  of  buildings, which are: depreciable
 pursuant to section one hundred  sixty-seven  of  the  internal  revenue
 code, have a useful life of four years or more, are acquired by purchase
 as  defined  in  section  one  hundred  seventy-nine (d) of the internal
 revenue code, have a situs in this state and are (A) principally used by
 the taxpayer in the production of goods  by  manufacturing,  processing,
 assembling,  refining,  mining, extracting, farming, agriculture, horti-
 culture, floriculture, viticulture or commercial fishing, (B) industrial
 waste treatment facilities or air pollution control facilities, used  in
 the taxpayer's trade or business, (C) research and development property,
 or  (D)  principally used in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's trade
 or business as a broker or dealer in connection  with  the  purchase  or
 sale  (which  shall include but not be limited to the issuance, entering
 into, assumption,  offset,  assignment,  termination,  or  transfer)  of
 stocks,  bonds  or  other  securities as defined in section four hundred
 seventy-five (c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, or of  commodities  as
 defined in section four hundred seventy-five (e) of the Internal Revenue
 Code,  (E)  principally  used  in  the ordinary course of the taxpayer's
 trade or business of providing investment advisory services for a  regu-
 lated  investment  company as defined in section eight hundred fifty-one
 of the Internal Revenue Code, or lending, loan arrangement or loan orig-
 ination services to customers in connection with the  purchase  or  sale
 (which  shall include but not be limited to the issuance, entering into,
 assumption, offset, assignment, termination, or transfer) of  securities
 as  defined  in section four hundred seventy-five (c)(2) of the Internal
              

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 Revenue Code, (F) principally used in the ordinary course of the taxpay-
 er's business  as  an  exchange  registered  as  a  national  securities
 exchange  within the meaning of sections 3(a)(1) and 6(a) of the Securi-
 ties Exchange Act of 1934 or a board of trade as defined in subparagraph
 one of paragraph (a) of section fourteen hundred ten of the not-for-pro-
 fit  corporation law or as an entity that is wholly owned by one or more
 such national securities exchanges or boards of trade and that  provides
 automation  or  technical services thereto, or (G) principally used as a
 qualified film production facility including qualified  film  production
 facilities  having a situs in an empire zone designated as such pursuant
 to article eighteen-B of the general municipal law, where  the  taxpayer
 is  providing  three  or  more services to any qualified film production
 company using the facility, including such services as a studio lighting
 grid, lighting and grip equipment, multi-line phone  service,  broadband
 information  technology  access,  industrial  scale electrical capacity,
 food services, security  services,  and  heating,  ventilation  and  air
 conditioning.  For purposes of clauses (D), (E) and (F) of this subpara-
 graph, property purchased by a  taxpayer  affiliated  with  a  regulated
 broker,  dealer,  registered  investment  advisor,  national  securities
 exchange or board of trade, is allowed a credit under  this  subdivision
 if  the  property  is  used  by its affiliated regulated broker, dealer,
 registered investment advisor, national securities exchange or board  of
 trade  in  accordance with this subdivision. For purposes of determining
 if the property is principally used in qualifying uses, the uses by  the
 taxpayer  described  in  clauses (D) and (E) of this subparagraph may be
 aggregated. In addition, the uses by the taxpayer, its affiliated  regu-
 lated  broker,  dealer and registered investment advisor under either or
 both of those clauses may be aggregated. Provided, however,  a  taxpayer
 shall  not be allowed the credit provided by clauses (D), (E) and (F) of
 this subparagraph unless the property is first placed in service  before
 October  first,  two  thousand fifteen and (i) eighty percent or more of
 the  employees  performing  the  administrative  and  support  functions
 resulting  from  or related to the qualifying uses of such equipment are
 located in this state or (ii)  the  average  number  of  employees  that
 perform  the  administrative  and  support  functions  resulting from or
 related to the qualifying uses of such equipment and are located in this
 state during the taxable year for which the credit is claimed  is  equal
 to  or greater than ninety-five percent of the average number of employ-
 ees that perform these functions and are located in  this  state  during
 the thirty-six months immediately preceding the year for which the cred-
 it  is  claimed,  or (iii) the number of employees located in this state
 during the taxable year for which the credit is claimed is equal  to  or
 greater  than  ninety percent of the number of employees located in this
 state on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight or, if the
 taxpayer was not a calendar year taxpayer in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-
 eight,  the  last  day  of  its first taxable year ending after December
 thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight.  If  the  taxpayer  becomes
 subject  to  tax in this state after the taxable year beginning in nine-
 teen hundred ninety-eight, then the taxpayer is not required to  satisfy
 the  employment test provided in the preceding sentence of this subpara-
 graph for its first taxable year. For purposes of clause (iii)  of  this
 subparagraph  the employment test will be based on the number of employ-
 ees located in this state on the last day of the first taxable year  the
 taxpayer  is  subject  to tax in this state. If the uses of the property
 must be aggregated to determine whether the property is principally used
 in qualifying uses, then either each affiliate using the  property  must
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 satisfy  this  employment test or this employment test must be satisfied
 through the aggregation of the employees of the taxpayer, its affiliated
 regulated broker, dealer, and registered investment  adviser  using  the
 property.  For  purposes  of  clause  (A) of this subparagraph, tangible
 personal property and other tangible property shall not include property
 principally used by the taxpayer in the production  or  distribution  of
 electricity,  natural  gas  after extraction from wells, steam, or water
 delivered through pipes and mains. FOR PURPOSES OF THE CREDIT ALLOWED BY
 CLAUSE (A) OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH, FOR A  TAXPAYER  THAT  IS  AN  ELIGIBLE
 FARMER  AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (A-1) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE ELIGIBLE
 COST OF GOODS SHALL INCLUDE THE COST OF STANDARD CONSTRUCTION  MATERIALS
 AND  LABOR USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSING OCCUPIED FARM
 WORKERS EMPLOYED BY THE TAXPAYER TO PROVIDE LABOR IN THE  PRODUCTION  OF
 THE  QUALIFYING  PRODUCT  PRODUCED  BY THE TAXPAYER, PROVIDED SUCH COSTS
 SATISFY THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   § 2. Subparagraph (A) of paragraph 2 of subsection (a) of section  606
 of  the  tax law, as amended by section 3 of part P of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (A) A credit shall be allowed under this subsection  with  respect  to
 tangible personal property and other tangible property, including build-
 ings  and  structural  components  of  buildings, which are: depreciable
 pursuant to section one hundred  sixty-seven  of  the  internal  revenue
 code, have a useful life of four years or more, are acquired by purchase
 as  defined  in  section  one  hundred  seventy-nine (d) of the internal
 revenue code, have a situs in this state and are (i) principally used by
 the taxpayer in the production of goods  by  manufacturing,  processing,
 assembling,  refining,  mining, extracting, farming, agriculture, horti-
 culture, floriculture, viticulture or commercial  fishing,  (ii)  indus-
 trial  waste  treatment  facilities or air pollution control facilities,
 used in the taxpayer's trade or business, (iii) research and development
 property, (iv) principally used in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's
 trade or business as a broker or dealer in connection with the  purchase
 or  sale (which shall include but not be limited to the issuance, enter-
 ing into, assumption, offset, assignment, termination, or  transfer)  of
 stocks,  bonds  or  other  securities as defined in section four hundred
 seventy-five (c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, or of  commodities  as
 defined  in section 475(e) of the Internal Revenue Code, (v) principally
 used in the ordinary course of  the  taxpayer's  trade  or  business  of
 providing investment advisory services for a regulated investment compa-
 ny as defined in section eight hundred fifty-one of the Internal Revenue
 Code,  or  lending,  loan  arrangement  or  loan origination services to
 customers in connection with the purchase or sale (which  shall  include
 but  not  be limited to the issuance, entering into, assumption, offset,
 assignment, termination,  or  transfer)  of  securities  as  defined  in
 section  four  hundred seventy-five (c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code,
 or (vi) principally used as a qualified film production facility includ-
 ing qualified film production facilities having a  situs  in  an  empire
 zone  designated  as  such pursuant to article eighteen-B of the general
 municipal law, where the taxpayer is providing three or more services to
 any qualified film production company using the facility, including such
 services as a studio lighting grid, lighting and grip equipment,  multi-
 line  phone service, broadband information technology access, industrial
 scale electrical capacity, food services, security services,  and  heat-
 ing,  ventilation and air conditioning. For purposes of clauses (iv) and
 (v) of this subparagraph, property purchased by  a  taxpayer  affiliated
 with  a  regulated  broker,  dealer, or registered investment adviser is
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 allowed a credit under this subsection if the property is  used  by  its
 affiliated  regulated broker, dealer or registered investment adviser in
 accordance with this subsection. For  purposes  of  determining  if  the
 property is principally used in qualifying uses, the uses by the taxpay-
 er  described in clauses (iv) and (v) of this subparagraph may be aggre-
 gated. In addition, the uses by the taxpayer, its  affiliated  regulated
 broker, dealer and registered investment adviser under either or both of
 those clauses may be aggregated. Provided, however, a taxpayer shall not
 be  allowed the credit provided by clauses (iv) and (v) of this subpara-
 graph unless (I) eighty percent or more of the employees performing  the
 administrative  and  support  functions resulting from or related to the
 qualifying uses of such equipment are located in this state, or (II) the
 average number of employees that perform the administrative and  support
 functions  resulting  from  or  related  to  the qualifying uses of such
 equipment and are located in this state  during  the  taxable  year  for
 which  the  credit  is  claimed  is equal to or greater than ninety-five
 percent of the average number of employees that perform these  functions
 and  are  located in this state during the thirty-six months immediately
 preceding the year for which the credit is claimed, or (III) the  number
 of employees located in this state during the taxable year for which the
 credit  is  claimed  is  equal  to or greater than ninety percent of the
 number of employees located in  this  state  on  December  thirty-first,
 nineteen  hundred  ninety-eight  or,  if the taxpayer was not a calendar
 year taxpayer in nineteen hundred ninety-eight,  the  last  day  of  its
 first  taxable year ending after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred
 ninety-eight. If the taxpayer becomes subject to tax in this state after
 the taxable year beginning in nineteen hundred  ninety-eight,  then  the
 taxpayer  is not required to satisfy the employment test provided in the
 preceding sentence of this subparagraph for its first taxable year.  For
 the  purposes  of  clause (III) of this subparagraph the employment test
 will be based on the number of employees located in this  state  on  the
 last  day  of  the  first taxable year the taxpayer is subject to tax in
 this state. If the uses of the property must be aggregated to  determine
 whether the property is principally used in qualifying uses, then either
 each  affiliate  using the property must satisfy this employment test or
 this employment test must be satisfied through the  aggregation  of  the
 employees  of the taxpayer, its affiliated regulated broker, dealer, and
 registered investment adviser using the property. For purposes of clause
 (i) of this subparagraph, tangible personal property and other  tangible
 property  shall not include property principally used by the taxpayer in
 the  production  or  distribution  of  electricity,  natural  gas  after
 extraction  from  wells,  steam,  or  water  delivered through pipes and
 mains. FOR PURPOSES OF THE CREDIT ALLOWED BY CLAUSE (I) OF THIS SUBPARA-
 GRAPH, FOR A TAXPAYER THAT IS AN ELIGIBLE FARMER AS  PROVIDED  IN  PARA-
 GRAPH ONE-A OF THIS SUBSECTION, THE ELIGIBLE COST OF GOODS SHALL INCLUDE
 THE  COST  OF  STANDARD  CONSTRUCTION  MATERIALS  AND  LABOR USED IN THE
 CONSTRUCTION OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSING OCCUPIED FARM  WORKERS  EMPLOYED  BY
 THE  TAXPAYER TO PROVIDE LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE QUALIFYING PROD-
 UCT PRODUCED BY THE TAXPAYER, PROVIDED  SUCH  COSTS  SATISFY  THE  OTHER
 REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law and  shall  apply  to
 tax  years  commencing on and after such effective date. Effective imme-
 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.