What's happening
This bill eliminates the residential-only restriction for heating fuel tax exemptions, allowing exemptions for all heating purposes.
Why it matters
Broadens tax exemptions and reimbursements for heating fuels. to include all heating uses (not just residential), which could lower costs for businesses, industrial users, and institutions such as schools and hospitals.
Removes the need to distinguish between residential and non-residential heating. for tax purposes, simplifying compliance and potentially reducing administrative burdens for fuel distributors and consumers.
May encourage greater use of heating fuels in non-residential settings. by reducing overall fuel costs, potentially impacting business and operational expenses across a range of sectors.
Could have budgetary and environmental implications. if increased exemptions lead to higher fuel consumption or reduced tax revenue for the state.
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End Heating Fuel Tax
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STATE OF NEW YORK
39
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLE- BRIGHT, GUNTHER, LUPARDO, MORELLE, ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to eliminating the residential restriction for heating exemptions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (d) of section 301-b of the tax law, as amended by section 21 of part K of chapter 61 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
(d) Sales to consumers for heating purposes. [(1) Total residential heating] Heating exemption. Non-highway diesel motor fuel sold by a petroleum business registered under article twelve-A of this chapter as a distributor of diesel motor fuel or residual petroleum product sold by a petroleum business registered under this article as a residual petroleum product business to the consumer exclusively for [residential] heating purposes only if such non-highway diesel motor fuel is delivered into a storage tank which is not equipped with a hose or other apparatus by which such fuel can be dispensed into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle and such storage tank is attached to the heating unit burning such fuel.
[(2) Partial non-residential heating exemption. (A) Non-highway diesel motor fuel sold by a petroleum business registered under article twelve-A of this chapter as a distributor of diesel motor fuel or residual petroleum product sold by a petroleum business registered under this article as a residual petroleum product business to the consumer exclusively for heating, other than residential heating purposes only if such non-highway diesel motor fuel is delivered into a storage tank which is not equipped with a hose or other apparatus by which such fuel
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can be dispensed into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle and such storage tank is attached to the heating unit burning such fuel
(B) Calculation of partial exemption. The partial exemption under this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the quantity of non-highway diesel motor fuel and residual petroleum product eligible for the exemption times the sum of the then current rate of the supplemental tax imposed by section three hundred one-j of this article and forty-six percent of the then current rate of the tax imposed by section three hundred one-a of this article, with respect to the specific non-highway diesel motor fuel or residual petroleum product rate, as the case may be.]
§ 2. Subdivision (a) of section 301-c of the tax law, as amended by section 23 of part K of chapter 61 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Non-highway Diesel motor fuel used for heating purposes. [(1) Total residential heating] Heating reimbursement. Non-highway Diesel motor fuel purchased in this state and sold by such purchaser to a consumer for use exclusively for [residential] heating purposes but only where (i) such non-highway diesel motor fuel is delivered into a storage tank which is not equipped with a hose or other apparatus by which such non-highway Diesel motor fuel can be dispensed into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle and such storage tank is attached to the heating unit burning such non-highway Diesel motor fuel, (ii) the tax imposed pursuant to this article has been paid with respect to such non-highway diesel motor fuel and the entire amount of such tax has been absorbed by such purchaser, and (iii) such purchaser possesses documentary proof satisfactory to the commissioner evidencing the absorption by it of the entire amount of the tax imposed pursuant to this article. Provided, however, that the commissioner is authorized, in the event that the commissioner determines that it would not threaten the integrity of the administration and enforcement of the tax imposed by this article, to provide a reimbursement with respect to a retail sale to a consumer for [residential] heating purposes of less than ten gallons of non-highway diesel motor fuel provided such fuel is not dispensed into the tank of a motor vehicle.
[(2) Partial non-residential heating reimbursement. (A) Non-highway Diesel motor fuel purchased in this state and sold by such purchaser to a consumer for use exclusively for heating, other than for residential heating purposes, but only where (i) such non-highway diesel motor fuel is delivered into a storage tank which is not equipped with a hose or other apparatus by which such non-highway Diesel motor fuel can be dispensed into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle and such storage tank is attached to the heating unit burning such non-highway Diesel motor fuel, (ii) the tax imposed pursuant to this article has been paid with respect to such non-highway diesel motor fuel and the entire amount of such tax has been absorbed by such purchaser, and (iii) such purchaser possesses documentary proof satisfactory to the commissioner evidencing the absorption by it of the entire amount of the tax imposed pursuant to this article.
(B) Calculation of partial reimbursement. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the amount of the reimbursement under this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the quantity of non-highway diesel motor fuel eligible for the reimbursement times the sum of the then current rate of the supplemental tax imposed by section three hundred one-j of this article and forty-six percent of the then current rate of the tax imposed by section three hundred one-a of this article,
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with respect to the non-highway diesel motor fuel rate, as the case may be.]
§ 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2017; provided, however, if this act shall become a law after such date it shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2017.
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