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Home/Bills/A 1707New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 1707: Increases the tax exemption amount on clothing and apparel items from one hundred ten dollars to two hundred fifty dollars.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What A 1707 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill aims to increase the tax exemption amount on clothing and apparel items from $110 to $250. This means that individuals will not have to pay sales tax on clothing and shoes valued at $250 or less. The tax exemption applies to articles of clothing, shoes, and other footwear items that are purchased for less than $250.

Bill journey
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4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to ways and means (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to ways and means
Jan. 14, 2025referred to ways and means
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 14, 2025 · 222 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1707 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to increasing the tax exemption amount on clothing and apparel items from one hundred ten dollars to two hundred fifty dollars The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax 2 law, as amended by section 84 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 3 1998, is amended to read as follows: 4 (30) Clothing and footwear for which the receipt or consideration 5 given or contracted to be given is less than [one] two hundred [ten] 6 fifty dollars per article of clothing, per pair of shoes or other arti- 7 cles of footwear or per item used or consumed to make or repair such 8 clothing and which becomes a physical component part of such clothing. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03962-01-5 
Text of A 1707 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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