What's happening
This bill creates a $3,000 personal tax deduction for New York taxpayers who have been active Coast Guard Auxiliary members for at least five years.
Why it matters
Directly benefits long-term Coast Guard Auxiliary members. by providing a meaningful financial incentive (a $3,000 tax deduction), recognizing their ongoing volunteer service over at least five years.
Encourages retention and recruitment. within the Coast Guard Auxiliary, potentially strengthening maritime safety and emergency response in New York by making continued service more attractive.
Requires formal certification. of active status and longevity, ensuring only genuinely engaged and qualified members receive the benefit, which can help maintain the integrity and professionalism of the Auxiliary.
Could set a precedent for similar tax benefits. to other volunteer organizations, signaling broader recognition of the value of volunteer emergency and public safety service to the state.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1011
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a personal tax deduction for members of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
(44) Three thousand dollars for any taxpayer who, during the taxable year, was an enrolled and active member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and has been so enrolled and active for five or more years. The taxpayer shall have been certified by the chief director of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary as an enrolled and active member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary for at least five years. The commissioner shall determine the procedure for such certification.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02646-01-9
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