STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6437 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO, RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ, ARROYO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a hire-now tax credit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 44 to read 2 as follows: 3 § 44. Hire-Now tax credit. (a) Allowance of credit. A taxpayer, which 4 is subject to tax under article nine-A or twenty-two of this chapter and 5 which creates a new job, shall be allowed a credit against such tax. The 6 amount of the credit allowed under this section shall be equal to the 7 product of 6.85 percent and the gross wages paid for each new employee. 8 The credit shall not be more than five thousand dollars for any new 9 employee for one full year of employment; if a new employee has been 10 hired for less than a full tax year this amount shall be prorated and 11 apportioned to each tax year but shall in no way decrease the full three 12 consecutive years of credit eligibility. The taxpayer may claim this 13 credit for each new employee for a period of three consecutive years of 14 employment. The taxpayer may offset quarterly estimated tax returns 15 with the amount of this credit earned in any previous quarter. 16 (b) Unemployment enhancement. For calendar years two thousand nineteen 17 and two thousand twenty if a new employee was receiving unemployment 18 insurance benefits at the time of hire, an additional three thousand 19 dollar credit will be allowed for the first full year of employment. 20 (c) Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall 21 have the following meanings: 22 (1) "New employee" shall mean any full time employee that is hired by 23 the taxpayer after July first, two thousand nineteen and before April 24 first, two thousand twenty, that causes the total number of employees to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06713-02-9

A. 6437 2 1 increase above base employment or credit employment, whichever is high- 2 er. 3 (2) "Base year" shall mean calendar year two thousand fifteen. 4 (3) "Base employment" shall mean the average number of full time 5 employees or full time equivalent employees during the base year. For a 6 new business, base employment shall begin at zero. 7 (4) "Credit employment" shall mean base employment plus the number of 8 new employees for which a credit is earned for the prior tax years. 9 (d) Replacement employees. If a new employee for which a credit was 10 earned leaves the payroll and an employee is hired which brings total 11 employment above base employment but at or below credit employment 12 level, the credit eligibility period for such employee shall be three 13 years minus the amount of time (rounded to the next full month) the 14 employer received the credit for the departing employee. 15 (e) No credit shall be allowed under this section to a taxpayer for 16 any new employee if the taxpayer claims any other credit under this 17 article for such new employee where the basis of such other credit is an 18 increase in employment. 19 § 2. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended by adding a new subdivi- 20 sion 53 to read as follows: 21 53. Hire-Now tax credit. (a) Allowance of credit. A taxpayer will be 22 allowed a credit, to be computed as provided in section forty-four of 23 this chapter, against the tax imposed by this article. 24 (b) Application of credit. The credit allowed under this subdivision 25 for any taxable year may not reduce the tax due for such year to less 26 than the higher of the amounts prescribed in paragraph (d) of subdivi- 27 sion one of section two hundred ten of this article. However, if the 28 amount of credit allowed under this subdivision for any taxable year 29 reduces the tax to such amount, any amount of credit thus not deductible 30 in such taxable year will be treated as an overpayment of tax to be 31 credited or refunded in accordance with the provisions of section one 32 thousand eighty-six of this chapter. Provided, however, the provisions 33 of subsection (c) of section one thousand eighty-eight of this chapter 34 notwithstanding, no interest will be paid thereon. 35 § 3. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection 36 (jjj) to read as follows: 37 (jjj) Hire-Now tax credit. (1) A taxpayer will be allowed a credit, to 38 the extent allowed under section forty-four of this chapter, against the 39 tax imposed by this article. 40 (2) Application of credit. If the amount of the credit allowed under 41 this subsection for any taxable year exceeds the taxpayer's tax for such 42 year, the excess will be treated as an overpayment of tax to be credited 43 or refunded in accordance with the provisions of section six hundred 44 eighty-six of this article, provided, however, that no interest will be 45 paid thereon. 46 § 4. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (i) of section 606 47 of the tax law is amended by adding a new clause (xliv) to read as 48 follows: 49 (xliv) Hire-Now tax credit Amount of credit under 50 under subsection (jjj) subdivision fifty-three of section 51 two hundred ten-B 52 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

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