A 1632: Provides a tax credit for certain durable medical equipment equal to fifty percent of the cost to purchase and install durable medical equipment in a residence.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1632 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing tax credits for installing wheelchair ramps and stair lifts into a residence The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subsection (qqq) to read as follows: 3 (qqq) Credit for durable medical equipment. (1)(A) A taxpayer shall be 4 allowed a credit against the tax imposed by this article in an amount 5 equal to fifty percent of the cost to purchase and install durable 6 medical equipment in a residence. 7 (B) For purposes of this subsection, "durable medical equipment" shall 8 mean a wheelchair ramp, stair lift, incline platform lift, vertical 9 platform lift, or bathtub lift. 10 (2) Application of credit. If the amount of the credit allowed under 11 this subsection for any taxable year exceeds the taxpayer's tax for such 12 year, the excess will be treated as an overpayment of tax to be credited 13 or refunded in accordance with the provisions of section six hundred 14 eighty-six of this article, provided, however, that no interest will be 15 paid thereon. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on January first next succeeding the 17 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. LBD03755-01-5