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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BUTTENSCHON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   WOERNER -- 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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
 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
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 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
 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
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 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
 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-
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 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.