What's happening
This bill extends the authorization for White Plains to impose additional local sales and use taxes through August 31, 2021.
Why it matters
Extending local tax authority gives White Plains more time to generate revenue. for city services and infrastructure, potentially reducing the need for property tax increases or service cuts.
The bill specifically earmarks revenue from the additional one-quarter percent tax for the city's contingency and tax stabilization reserve fund. , which is meant to help White Plains manage unexpected fiscal challenges and stabilize its budget over time.
Requiring certified notice to the state tax commissioner before the tax takes effect ensures transparency and coordination. between local and state tax administration, reducing the risk of confusion for businesses and consumers.
Extending multiple incremental sales tax authorizations (dating from 1993, 2008, and 2010) highlights the city's ongoing reliance on these add-ons for fiscal health. , and signals that local governments may continue to seek similar extensions in the future.
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Extend White Plains Sales Tax
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History
- Signed chap.33
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 45–17
- 3rd reading cal.427
- Substituted for S2669
- Referred to finance
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Home rule request
- Advanced to third reading cal.194
- Reported
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- Referred to ways and means
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Extend White Plains Sales Tax
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Shelley Mayer
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5246
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to extending the period during which the city of White Plains is authorized to impose an additional sales and compensating use tax
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Clause 3 of subparagraph (ii) of the opening paragraph of section 1210 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 28 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(3) the city of White Plains 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-half of one percent additional to the three percent rate authorized above in this paragraph for such city for the period beginning September first, nineteen hundred ninety-three and ending August thirty-first, two thousand [nineteen] twenty-one; and (ii) an additional one-quarter of one percent in addition to the other rates authorized in this paragraph for such city for the period beginning March first, two thousand eight and ending August thirty-first, two thousand [nineteen] twenty-one; and (iii) an additional one-quarter of one percent in addition to the other rates authorized in this paragraph for such city for the period beginning June first, two thousand ten and ending August thirty-first, two thousand [nineteen] twenty-one;
§ 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (d) of section 1210 of the tax law or any other provision of law, local law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a local law, ordinance or resolution enacted or amended pursuant to the authority of this act, imposing an additional rate of tax in the city of White Plains, shall become effective in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (d) of section 1210 of the tax law, except that the certified copy of such local law, ordinance or
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[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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resolution which must be mailed by certified or registered mail to the commissioner of taxation and finance at the commissioner's office in Albany must be so mailed at least twenty-one days prior to the date on which such local law, ordinance or resolution is to take effect.
§ 3. The estimated revenue from the additional one-quarter of one percent rate of tax first authorized by chapter seventy-four of the laws of two thousand ten to be imposed by the city of White Plains, which is expected to be received during a fiscal year of such city and which is included in the annual budget, as finally adopted, of such city, for that fiscal year, shall be paid into the contingency and tax stabilization reserve fund of such city as provided by budgetary appropriation of such city, subject to all the limitations and other provisions of section 6-e of the general municipal law.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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