A 3205: Authorizes a personal income tax deduction for expenses paid during the taxable year by a qualified taxpayer attributable to the cost of residential heating, including, but not limited to amounts paid for fuel oil, coal, wood, propane, natural gas, electricity, steam, kerosene and any other fuel used to heat such taxpayer's primary residence.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3205 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing a personal income tax deduction for home heating expenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by 2 adding a new paragraph 48 to read as follows: 3 (48) (A) Expenses paid during the taxable year by a qualified taxpayer 4 attributable to the cost of residential heating, including, but not 5 limited to amounts paid for fuel oil, coal, wood, propane, natural gas, 6 electricity, steam, kerosene and any other fuel used to heat such 7 taxpayer's primary residence. 8 (B) For the purposes of this paragraph, "qualified taxpayer" shall 9 mean a resident individual of the state, who maintained their primary 10 residence in this state on December thirty-first of the taxable year, 11 and who was: (i) an owner of such property on such date or (ii) a renter 12 of such property on such date who was responsible for paying for the 13 cost of heating such property. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable 15 years commencing on or after the first of January in the year in which 16 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06247-01-5