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Int 2007-2020

Temporary suspension of the commercial rent tax during the COVID-19 emergency for premises with a base rent of less than one million dollars.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Financeintroduced 2020-07-28

Filed — closed without being enacted.

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Agenda: 2020-07-28Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This local law would increase the base rent deduction of the commercial rent tax to 100 percent for premises with an annual base rent of less than $1 million for the period beginning on June 1, 2020 and ending the day before the tax quarter succeeding the expiration of the State or City state of emergency declaration related to COVID-19, whichever is later.

Committee on FinanceExecutive Budget review and Budget modification, Banking Commission, Comptroller's Office, Department of Finance, Independent Budget Office, Office of Administrative Tax Appeal, and fiscal policy and revenue from any source.

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26 passed · 24 died

This bill: 520 days in committee

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Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2020-07-28 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2020-07-28 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2020-07-28 · 1:30 PM · - REMOTE HEARING (VIRTUAL ROOM 1) -

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision h of section 11-704 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 63 for the year 1997, is amended to read as follows: (2) In the case of any taxable premises located in the borough of Manhattan south of the center line of ninety-sixth street, the base rent for such premises shall be reduced by (i) fifteen percent for the period beginning March first, nineteen hundred ninety-six and ending May thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, (ii) twenty-five percent for the period beginning June first, nineteen hundred ninety-six and ending August thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, and (iii) thirty-five percent for periods beginning September first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and thereafter, such reduction to be made after all other exemptions and deductions authorized by this chapter have been taken[.], except that the base rent for such premises with a base rent of less than one million dollars per year shall be reduced by one hundred percent for the period beginning June first, two thousand and twenty and ending on the day prior to the commencement of the tax period succeeding the later of the expiration of the state disaster emergency declared by the governor in executive order number 202 issued on March 7, 2020 or the state of emergency declared by the mayor's emergency executive order number 98, published March 12, 2020, as extended. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. RKC/SR LS #5400/14866 07/22/2020 2 2