New York A 3064: Relates to imposing a specific tax on all corporate stock buybacks of issued shares

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A03064 Summary:

BILL NOA03064 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01681

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SPONSORKelles

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COSPNSRGlick, Simon, Epstein, Reyes, Seawright, Rosenthal, Carroll R

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §270, Tax L

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Relates to imposing a tax of one-half of one percent on all corporate stock buybacks of issued shares.

Go to top A03064 Actions:

BILL NOA03064 

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01/23/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3064

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, GLICK, SIMON, EPSTEIN, REYES, SEAWRIGHT,
 ROSENTHAL, R. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Committee on
 Ways and Means

 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to imposing a specific tax on
 all corporate stock buybacks of issued shares

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 270 of the tax law, subdi-
 2 vision 1 as amended by chapter 996 of the laws of 1963 and subdivision 2
 3 as amended by chapter 827 of the laws of 1968, are amended and a new
 4 subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:
 5 1. There is hereby imposed and shall immediately accrue and be
 6 collected a tax, as herein provided, on all sales, or agreements to
 7 sell, or memoranda of sales and all deliveries or transfers of shares or
 8 certificates of stock, or certificates of rights to stock, or certif-
 9 icates of interest in property or accumulations, or certificates of
 10 deposit representing certificates taxable under this article, in any
 11 domestic or foreign association, company or corporation, or certificates
 12 of interest in business conducted by a trustee or trustees, made after
 13 the first day of June, nineteen hundred five, whether made upon or shown
 14 by the books of the association, company, corporation, or trustee, or by
 15 any assignment in blank, or by any delivery, or by any paper or agree-
 16 ment or memorandum or other evidence of sale or transfer, whether inter-
 17 mediate or final, and whether investing the holder with the beneficial
 18 interest in or legal title to said stock, or other certificates taxable
 19 hereunder, or merely with the possession or use thereof for any purpose,
 20 or to secure the future payment of money, or the future transfer of any
 21 such stock, or certificates. The purchase, redemption or other reacqui-
 22 sition of its own shares by a corporation is subject to tax under this
 23 article [unless] regardless of whether such shares are cancelled on
 24 reacquisition pursuant to the provisions of section five hundred fifteen

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03733-01-5

 A. 3064 2

 1 of the business corporation law, or [unless] whether within one year of
 2 the date of such purchase, redemption or other reacquisition, such
 3 shares are cancelled by an appropriate amendment to the corporation's
 4 certificate of incorporation or by action of the board of directors of
 5 such corporation.
 6 2. Except as otherwise provided by [section two hundred seventy-a of
 7 this chapter] subdivision two-a of this section, the tax imposed by this
 8 section shall be two and one-half cents for each share, except in cases
 9 where the shares or certificates are sold, in which cases the tax shall
 10 be at the rate of one and one-quarter cents for each share where the
 11 selling price is less than five dollars per share; two and one-half
 12 cents for each share where the selling price is five dollars or more per
 13 share and less than ten dollars per share; three and three-quarters
 14 cents for each share where the selling price is ten dollars or more per
 15 share and less than twenty dollars per share and five cents for each
 16 share where the selling price is twenty dollars or more per share.
 17 2-a. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this
 18 section, the tax imposed by this section for the purchase, redemption or
 19 other reacquisiti