Senate Bill S637

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes the work opportunity tax credit for businesses with fifty employees or less for hiring a long term unemployed person

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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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2021-S637 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5300
Current Committee:
Senate Budget And Revenue
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§210-B, 606 & 1511, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5573
2017-2018: S1517
2019-2020: S2119, A8471
2023-2024: S5846, A5239

2021-S637 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the work opportunity tax credit for businesses with fifty employees or less for hiring a long term unemployed person; a credit shall be allowed of up to $2,400; the total amount of credit provided statewide shall not exceed fifteen million dollars.

2021-S637 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S637 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    637
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing the work oppor-
   tunity tax credit

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  210-B  of the tax law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 55 to read as follows:
   55. WORK OPPORTUNITY TAX CREDIT. (A) ALLOWANCE OF CREDIT.  A  TAXPAYER
 SHALL  BE  ALLOWED A CREDIT, AGAINST THE TAX IMPOSED BY THIS ARTICLE, OF
 TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH LONG TERM  UNEMPLOYED  PERSON
 HIRED DURING A TAXABLE YEAR. SUCH TAX CREDIT SHALL BE APPLICABLE ONLY TO
 BUSINESSES  EMPLOYING FIFTY OR FEWER EMPLOYEES. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION, A "LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED PERSON" SHALL BE AN INDIVIDUAL  WHO
 HAS  BEEN  A  RESIDENT OF NEW YORK FOR THREE YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING
 HIRING AND WHO, PRIOR TO BEING HIRED BY THE BUSINESS  ELIGIBLE  FOR  THE
 CREDIT ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION, HAD BEEN UNEMPLOYED AND
 RECEIVING  PUBLIC  ASSISTANCE FOR SIX CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OR MORE, AND IS
 RETAINED FOR FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT BY SUCH  BUSINESS  FOR  AT  LEAST  ONE
 YEAR.
   (B)  APPLICATION  OF CREDIT. THE CREDIT ALLOWED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION
 FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR SHALL NOT REDUCE THE TAX DUE FOR SUCH YEAR TO  LESS
 THAN  THE  FIXED  DOLLAR  MINIMUM  AMOUNT PRESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH (D) OF
 SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED TEN OF THIS ARTICLE. HOWEVER,  IF
 THE AMOUNT OF CREDIT ALLOWED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR
 REDUCES  THE  TAX  TO  SUCH AMOUNT OR IF THE TAXPAYER OTHERWISE PAYS TAX
 BASED ON THE FIXED DOLLAR MINIMUM AMOUNT, ANY AMOUNT OF CREDIT THUS  NOT
 DEDUCTIBLE  IN  SUCH  TAXABLE YEAR SHALL BE TREATED AS AN OVERPAYMENT OF
 TAX TO BE CREDITED OR REFUNDED IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 SECTION  ONE THOUSAND EIGHTY-SIX OF THIS CHAPTER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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