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This bill extends Oneida County's authority to impose additional sales and use tax rates through November 30, 2023.
Why it matters
Continued Funding for Local Services. By extending Oneida County’s authority to impose higher sales and use taxes, the bill helps ensure stable revenue streams for county and municipal services, potentially preventing budget cuts or reductions in local programs.
Direct Impact on City and Town Budgets. The law specifies how the additional tax revenue is shared with cities and towns in the county, which can significantly affect their fiscal health and ability to plan for infrastructure, public safety, and other local needs.
Population-Based Distribution. Some of the tax revenue is distributed based on population ratios, ensuring that growing or more heavily populated areas receive a fairer share of funds, which may influence future development or services in those places.
Temporary Extension, Not Permanent Change. The bill only extends the taxing authority and related revenue-sharing until November 30, 2023, signaling that further legislative action will be needed for any continuation—making this a stopgap rather than a long-term solution for local fiscal planning.
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Extend Oneida Sales Tax
In Senate Committee · Investigations And Government Operations · Sponsor Joseph A. Griffo
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10230
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2020
Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing Oneida county to impose additional rates of sales and compensating use taxes and providing for allocation and distribution of a portion of net collections from such additional rates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Clause 13 of subparagraph (i) of the opening paragraph of section 1210 of the tax law, as amended by section 1 of subpart DD of part A of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(13) the county of Oneida is hereby further authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such taxes at a rate which is: (i) one percent additional to the three percent rate authorized above in this paragraph for such county for the period beginning September first, nineteen hundred ninety-two and ending November thirtieth, two thousand [twenty] twenty-three; and also (ii) at a rate which is three-quarters of one percent or one-half of one percent additional to the three percent rate authorized above in this paragraph, and which is also additional to the one percent rate also authorized above in this clause for such county, for the period beginning December first, two thousand eight and ending November thirtieth, two thousand [twenty] twenty-three;
§ 2. Section 1262-g of the tax law, as amended by section 2 of subpart DD of part A of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
§ 1262-g. Oneida county allocation and distribution of net collections from the additional one percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, if the county of Oneida imposes sales and compensating use taxes at a rate which is one percent additional to the three percent rate authorized by section twelve hundred ten of this article, as authorized by such section, (a) where a city in such county imposes tax pursuant to the authority of subdivision (a) of such section twelve hundred ten, such county shall
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allocate, distribute and pay in cash quarterly to such city one-half of the net collections attributable to such additional one percent rate of the county's taxes collected in such city's boundaries; (b) where a city in such county does not impose tax pursuant to the authority of such subdivision (a) of such section twelve hundred ten, such county shall allocate, distribute and pay in cash quarterly to such city not so imposing tax a portion of the net collections attributable to one-half of the county's additional one percent rate of tax calculated on the basis of the ratio which such city's population bears to the county's total population, such populations as determined in accordance with the latest decennial federal census or special population census taken pursuant to section twenty of the general municipal law completed and published prior to the end of the quarter for which the allocation is made, which special census must include the entire area of the county; and (c) provided, however, that such county shall dedicate the first one million five hundred thousand dollars of net collections attributable to such additional one percent rate of tax received by such county after the county receives in the aggregate eighteen million five hundred thousand dollars of net collections from such additional one percent rate of tax imposed for any of the periods: September first, two thousand twelve through August thirty-first, two thousand thirteen; September first, two thousand thirteen through August thirty-first, two thousand fourteen; and September first, two thousand fourteen through August thirty-first, two thousand fifteen; September first, two thousand fifteen through August thirty-first, two thousand sixteen; and September first, two thousand sixteen through August thirty-first, two thousand seventeen; September first, two thousand seventeen through August thirty-first, two thousand eighteen; [and] September first, two thousand eighteen through August thirty-first, two thousand twenty; and September first, two thousand twenty through August thirty-first, two thousand twenty-three, to an allocation on a per capita basis, utilizing figures from the latest decennial federal census or special population census taken pursuant to section twenty of the general municipal law, completed and published prior to the end of the year for which such allocation is made, which special census must include the entire area of such county, to be allocated and distributed among the towns of Oneida county by appropriation of its board of legislators; provided, further, that nothing herein shall require such board of legislators to make any such appropriation until it has been notified by any town by appropriate resolution and, in any case where there is a village wholly or partly located within a town, a resolution of every such village, embodying the agreement of such town and village or villages upon the amount of such appropriation to be distributed to such village or villages out of the allocation to the town or towns in which it is located.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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