What's happening
This bill exempts certain agency and authority mortgages from additional recording taxes when the mortgage's main purpose is to secure payments in lieu of taxes as a primary property tax lien.
Why it matters
Reduces costs for certain public projects. By exempting agency and authority mortgages that secure payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) from additional recording taxes, the bill may lower expenses for projects benefiting from public financing or tax agreements, potentially making such developments more financially viable.
Clarifies tax treatment for PILOT-related mortgages. The bill draws a clear distinction between standard mortgages and those primarily recorded to secure PILOT obligations as property tax liens, ensuring only the latter are exempt from specific additional taxes, streamlining compliance and administration.
May encourage local economic development. By easing a tax burden on projects that use PILOT agreements—often a tool for attracting or retaining businesses and encouraging development—this exemption could make it easier for municipalities and authorities to negotiate and implement such deals.
Targets specific geographic districts. The exemption applies only within defined transportation districts, meaning its benefits are focused on regions with established public authorities, potentially impacting the distribution of economic incentives and public project financing in those areas.
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Exempt Certain Mortgages from Tax
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- Referred to local government
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to local governments
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 48–14
- Ordered to third reading cal.2229
- Referred to rules
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End Mortgage Tax on PILOTs
In Assembly Committee · Local Governments · Sponsor Richard Gottfried
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6796
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 18, 2017
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the public authorities law and the tax law, in relation to certain recording taxes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 874 of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 394 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
(1) It is hereby determined that the creation of the agency and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state of New York and is a public purpose, and the agency shall be regarded as performing a governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this title and shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any of the property acquired by it or under its jurisdiction or control or supervision or upon its activities. Provided, however, if the agency is located within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law, it shall not be exempt from the additional tax on each mortgage of real property situated within the state imposed by such paragraph; provided, further, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the agency shall be exempt from any taxes on the execution and/or recordation of a mortgage of real property situated within the state within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law that secures an obligation to make payments in lieu of taxes where the primary purpose of recording the mortgage is for such mortgage to act as the priority of a real property tax lien.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1963 of the public authorities law, as amended by chapter 394 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1. It is hereby determined that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the city and its environs, and is a public purpose, and the authority shall be regarded as performing a governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this title and shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any of the property acquired by it or under its jurisdiction or control or supervision or upon its activities. Provided, however, if the authority is located within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law, it shall not be exempt from the additional tax on each mortgage of real property situated within the state imposed by such paragraph; provided, further, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the authority shall be exempt from the additional tax imposed by paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law on the execution and/or recordation of a mortgage of real property situated within the state within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law that secures an obligation to make payments in lieu of taxes where the primary purpose of recording the mortgage is for such mortgage to act as the priority of a real property tax lien.
§ 3. Subdivision 1 of section 2326 of the public authorities law, as amended by chapter 394 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
1. It is hereby determined that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the city and its environs, and is a public purpose, and the authority shall be regarded as performing a governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this title and shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any of the property acquired by it or under its jurisdiction or control or supervision or upon its activities. Provided, however, if the authority is located within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law, it shall not be exempt from the additional tax on each mortgage of real property situated within the state imposed by such paragraph; provided, further, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the authority shall be exempt from the additional tax imposed by paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law on the execution and/or recordation of a mortgage of real property situated within the state within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law that secures an obligation to make payments in lieu of taxes where the primary purpose of recording the mortgage is for such mortgage to act as the priority of a real property tax lien.
§ 4. Subdivision 2 of section 252 of the tax law, as added by chapter 394 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
(2) Notwithstanding article eighteen-A of the general municipal law and titles eleven and fifteen of article eight of the public authorities law, but except as set forth in this subdivision, no mortgage of real property situated within the state in counties located within the metropolitan commuter transportation district, the Niagara Frontier transportation district, the Rochester-Genesee transportation district, the capital district transportation district, and the central New York regional transportation district executed, given, made, or transferred or assigned by or to an agency created under article eighteen-A of the
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general municipal law, an authority created under title eleven or fifteen of article eight of the public authorities law, an agent or agent of such agent of such agency or authority, a project operator receiving financial assistance from such agency or authority, a project occupant of such agency or authority, or an owner of a project receiving financial assistance from such agency or authority shall be exempt from the additional tax imposed by paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of this article, except when the execution and/or recordation of a mortgage of real property situated within the state within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the tax law that secures an obligation to make payments in lieu of taxes where the primary purpose of recording the mortgage is for such mortgage to act as the priority of a real property tax lien. For the purposes of this subdivision the term "financial assistance" shall have the same meaning as defined in section eight hundred fifty-four of the general municipal law.
§ 5. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 253 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 394 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
(a) In addition to the taxes imposed by subdivisions one and one-a of this section, there shall be imposed on each mortgage of real property situated within the state recorded on or after the first day of July, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, an additional tax of twenty-five cents for counties outside of the metropolitan commuter transportation district, as defined pursuant to section twelve hundred sixty-two of the public authorities law, and thirty cents for counties within such metropolitan commuter transportation district for each one hundred dollars and each remaining major fraction thereof of principal debt or obligation which is, or under any contingency may be secured at the date of execution thereof or at any time thereafter by such mortgage, saving and excepting the first ten thousand dollars of such principal debt or obligation in any case in which the related mortgage is of real property principally improved or to be improved by a one or two family residence or dwelling. All the provisions of this article shall apply with respect to the additional tax imposed by this subdivision to the same extent as if it were imposed by the said subdivision one of this section, except as otherwise expressly provided in this article. Notwithstanding article eighteen-A of the general municipal law and titles eleven and fifteen of article eight of the public authorities law, but except as set forth in this paragraph, no mortgage of real property situated within the state in counties located within the metropolitan commuter transportation district, the Niagara Frontier transportation district, the Rochester- Genesee transportation district, the capital district transportation district, and the central New York regional transportation district executed, given, made, or transferred or assigned by or to an agency created under article eighteen-A of the general municipal law, an authority created under title eleven or fifteen of article eight of the public authorities law, an agent or agent of such agent of such agency or authority, a project operator receiving financial assistance from such agency or authority, a project occupant of such agency or authority, or an owner of a project receiving financial assistance from such agency or authority shall be exempt from the additional tax imposed by this subdivision, except when the execution and/or recordation of a mortgage of real property situated within the state within a transportation district referenced in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section
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two hundred fifty-three of tax law that secures an obligation to make payments in lieu of taxes where the primary purpose of recording the mortgage is for such mortgage to act as the priority of a real property tax lien. For the purposes of this [subdivision] paragraph the term "financial assistance" shall have the same meaning as defined in section eight hundred fifty-four of the general municipal law. The imposition of this additional tax on mortgages recorded in a county outside the city of New York, other than one of the counties from time to time comprising the metropolitan commuter transportation district, the Niagara Frontier transportation district, the Rochester-Genesee transportation district, the capital district transportation district or the central New York regional transportation district may be suspended for a specified period of time or without limitation as to time by a local law, ordinance or resolution duly adopted by the local legislative body of such county.
§ 6. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as chapter 394 of the laws of 2016, takes effect.
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Title of bill
An act to amend the general municipal law, the public authorities law and the tax law, in relation to certain recording taxes
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill makes exempt industrial development agencies from a portion of mortgage recording taxes.
Summary of provisions
This bill would amend section 874 of the general municipal law, section 2326 of the public authorities law, and sections 252 and 253 of the tax law, to exempt mortgages that secure a payment in lieu of taxes agreement, as a real property priority lien for an industrial development agency, from the portion of mortgage recording taxes that would be paid to certain transportation districts.
Justification
This bill makes amendments to Chapter 394 of the Laws of 2016 to clarify that projects should not be subject to the additional tax imposed by this chapter on a mortgage of real property, if the purpose of recording the mortgage is for such mortgage to act as a priority of a real property tax lien. This legislation will clarify that the chapter being amended did not result in double taxation.
Accordingly, this bill would effectively enact a chapter amendment, for last year's chapter 394, to remove the requirement that industrial development agencies that secure a mortgage to guarantee a payment in lieu of taxes need not pay a mortgage recording tax on the filing of such instrument.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications for state and local governments
This bill will not impact the state financial plan.
Effective date
This act would take effect on the same date and in the same manner as Chapter 394 of the Laws of 2016, takes effect.
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