S 5197: Directs the department of taxation and finance to create and implement an online program which will enable each New York state taxpayer to prepare and electronically file such taxpayer's federal and state income tax returns free of charge.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5197 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 19, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations AN ACT directing the department of taxation and finance to create and implement an online program which will enable each New York state taxpayer to prepare and electronically file such taxpayer's federal and state income tax returns free of charge The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The department of taxation and finance is authorized and 2 directed to create and implement an online program which will enable 3 each New York state taxpayer to prepare and electronically file such 4 taxpayer's federal and state income tax returns free of charge, regard- 5 less of the taxpayer's income level. This program shall be made avail- 6 able to all New York state taxpayers on the department's website no 7 later than one hundred eighty days following the effective date of this 8 act. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04820-01-5