What's happening
This bill imposes new taxes and fees on Manhattan residents for parking services and vehicle registrations, directing the revenue to the MTA finance fund.
Why it matters
Manhattan residents will lose an existing tax exemption. for long-term parking, garaging, or storing of their personal vehicles, making it more expensive for them to park in their own borough.
A new $50 annual vehicle registration fee will be imposed specifically on Manhattan residents. , increasing the overall cost of car ownership in the borough compared to other parts of New York City.
Revenue from both the new parking taxes and the registration fee will be directed to the MTA finance fund. , potentially improving subway and bus services but shifting more financial responsibility onto Manhattan vehicle owners.
The bill could incentivize reduced car ownership and usage in Manhattan. , aligning with broader goals to reduce congestion and promote public transit, but may also be seen as unfairly targeting Manhattan residents who rely on their vehicles.
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Extra Fee for Manhattan Cars
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Robert C. Carroll
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4692
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2019
Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to vehicles in the borough of Manhattan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (d) of section 11-2051 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 74 of the city of New York for the year 1996, is amended to read as follows:
(d) The tax imposed by this subchapter shall not apply to any sale of services to an individual resident of the county in which such tax is imposed, except for individual residents of Manhattan, when such services are rendered on a monthly or longer-term basis at the principal location for the parking, garaging or storing of a motor vehicle owned or leased (but only in the case of a lease for a term of one year or more) by such individual resident. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "individual resident" means a natural person who maintains in such county a permanent place of abode which is such person's primary residence; the term "motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle which is registered pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law at the address of the primary residence referred to in this subdivision, or which is registered pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law and leased to an individual resident at the address of the primary residence referred to in this subdivision, and which is not used in carrying on any trade, business or commercial activity; and the term "lease for a term of one year or more" shall not include any lease the term of which is less than one year, irrespective of the fact that the cumulative period for which such lease may be in effect is one year or more as the result of the right to exercise an option to renew or other like provision.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 2. Subdivision (b) of section 11-2053 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
(b) All payments to the commissioner of finance pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall be credited to and deposited in the general fund of this city except a proportion of such taxes collected under this subchapter which were assessed against Manhattan residents which shall be remitted to the metropolitan transportation authority finance fund established by section twelve hundred seventy-h of the public authorities law.
§ 3. Subdivision 6 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
h. In addition to the other fees provided for in this section, the commissioner shall also collect an additional registration fee of fifty dollars when a vehicle is registered to a resident of the borough of Manhattan in the city of New York. Such additional fee collected pursuant to this paragraph shall be remitted to the metropolitan transportation authority finance fund established by section twelve hundred seventy-h of the public authorities law on a quarterly basis.
§ 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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Title of bill
An act to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to vehicles in the borough of Manhattan
Purpose or general idea of bill
To amend the current law as it relates to the parking garage tax waiver and registration of vehicles to residents of Manhattan and to direct additional revenues to the MTA finance fund.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill amends Subdivision (d) of section 11-2051 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 74 of the city of New York for the year 1996, to read as follows: (d) The tax imposed by this subchapter shall not apply to any sale of services to an individual resident of the county in which such tax is imposed, except for individual residents of Manhattan, when such services are rendered on a monthly or longer-term basis at the principal location for the parking, garaging or storing of a motor vehicle owned or leased (but only in the case of a lease for a term of one year or 10 more) by such individual resident.
Section 2 Subdivision (b) of section 11-2053 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows (b) All payments to the commissioner of finance pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall be credited to and deposited in the general fund of this city except a proportion of such taxes collected under this subchapter which were assessed against Manhattan residents which shall be remitted to the metropolitan transportation authority finance fund established by section twelve hundred seventy-h of the public authorities law.
Section 3 Subdivision 6 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows: In addition to the other fees provided for in this section, the commissioner shall also collect an additional registration fee of fifty dollars when a vehicle is registered to a resident of the borough of Manhattan in the city of New York. Such additional fee collected pursuant to this paragraph shall be remitted to the metropolitan transportation authority finance fund established by section twelve hundred seventy-h of the public authori- ties law on a quarterly basis.
Section 4 sets this effective date.
Justification
This bill will eliminate the parking garage tax waiver currently avail- able only to residents in the Borough of Manhattan, increase the cost of registering a car for Manhattan residents by an additional $50 and direct the revenue raised from both of these to the MTA finance fund. These two measures will raise an estimated $20 million annually for the MTA and will assist in closing the gap to fully fund the MTA's Fast Forward plan to upgrade outdated signals, switches and substations.
Prior legislative history
None.
Fiscal implications
TBD
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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