What's happening
This bill exempts sales of certain insecticides used to treat emerald ash borer infestations from New York state sales and use taxes.
Why it matters
Reduces financial barriers for property owners, municipalities, and businesses. seeking to treat ash trees against the emerald ash borer by making certain insecticides tax-exempt, potentially encouraging more widespread and timely treatment efforts.
Targets a specific invasive species threat. (emerald ash borer) that has devastated ash tree populations across New York, helping to slow its spread and mitigate environmental and economic impacts, particularly in urban forestry and rural woodlands.
Defines eligible insecticides narrowly. only those containing specific active ingredients and registered with the EPA—which may help ensure environmental safety and prevent broader, unintended exemptions for other pesticides.
Could have fiscal implications. for state and local tax revenues, especially in areas heavily affected by ash borer infestations, but may offset costs by reducing future tree removal and management expenses.
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Remove Tax on Insecticides
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Exempt Insecticide Sales Tax
In Senate Committee · Investigations And Government Operations · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6960
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting the sale of certain insecticides from state sales and use taxes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 1115 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subdivision (z) to read as follows:
(z) (1) Receipts from the retail sale of, and consideration given or contracted to be given for, or for the use of insecticide in treatment of the species agrilus planipennis, commonly known as the emerald ash borer shall be exempt from tax under this article.
(2) For the purposes of this subdivision, "insecticide" shall mean any chemical compound governed by the federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act and registered with the United States environmental protection agency pursuant to section one hundred thirty-six a of title seven of the United States code, in which the active ingredient is emamectin benzoate, dinotefuran, imidacloprid, imidacloprid and clothianidin, or azadirachtin.
§ 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.
LBD04726-01-9
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