A 7658: Provides for a refund of any excess amount of tax paid after reduction of other credits and the credit for long-term care insurance.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7658 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing a refund for excess tax paid after long-term insurance credit is applied The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (aa) of section 606 of the tax law, as amended 2 by section 1 of part P of chapter 61 of the laws of 2005, paragraph 1 as 3 amended by section 1 of part E of chapter 59 of the laws of 2020, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 (aa) Long-term care insurance credit. (1) Residents. There shall be 6 allowed a credit against the tax imposed by this article in an amount 7 equal to twenty percent of the premiums paid during the taxable year for 8 long-term care insurance. The credit amount shall not exceed one thou- 9 sand five hundred dollars and shall be allowed only if the amount of New 10 York adjusted gross income required to be reported on the return is less 11 than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. In order to qualify for such 12 credit, the taxpayer's premium payment must be for the purchase of or 13 for continuing coverage under a long-term care insurance policy that 14 qualifies for such credit pursuant to section one thousand one hundred 15 seventeen of the insurance law. [If the amount of the credit allowable 16 under this subsection for any taxable year shall exceed the taxpayer's 17 tax for such year, the excess may be carried over to the following year 18 or years and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or 19 years.] The credit under this subsection shall be allowed against the 20 taxes imposed by this article for the taxable year reduced by the cred- 21 its permitted by this article. If the credit exceeds the tax as so 22 reduced, the taxpayer may receive, and the comptroller, subject to a 23 certificate of the commissioner, shall refund as an overpayment, without 24 interest, the amount of such excess. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02589-01-5 
 A. 7658 2 1 (2) Nonresidents and part-year residents. In the case of a nonresident 2 taxpayer or a part-year resident taxpayer, the credit determined under 3 this subsection shall be limited to the amount determined by multiplying 4 the amount of such credit by the New York source fraction as set forth 5 in paragraph three of subsection (e) of section six hundred one of this 6 article. [The credit as so limited shall be applied as provided in para- 7 graph one of this subsection.] If the amount of the credit allowable 8 under this subsection for any taxable year shall exceed the taxpayer's 9 tax for such year, the excess may be carried over to the following year 10 or years and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or 11 years. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable 13 years beginning on or after the first of January next succeeding the 14 date on which it shall have become a law.