S 5716: Requires certain joint tax returns pertaining to residential real estate cash purchases by limited liability companies to be accompanied by a document which identifies the source or sources of funds used for the purchase, including the type of funding used, the bank account information of any funds used in the purchase and the amount used by each source of funds.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5716 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring certain joint tax returns pertaining to residential real estate cash purchases by limit- ed liability companies to disclose the source of funds used for the purchase The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision (a) of section 1409 of the tax 2 law, as amended by section 3 of part O of chapter 59 of the laws of 3 2021, is amended to read as follows: 4 (3) In addition to the requirements in paragraph two of this subdivi- 5 sion, when the grantor or grantee of a deed for a building used as resi- 6 dential real property containing up to four family dwelling units, 7 including condominiums and cooperatives, is a limited liability company 8 and the purchase is not secured by a mortgage, the joint return shall 9 not be accepted for filing unless it is accompanied by a document which 10 identifies the source or sources of funds used for the purchase, includ- 11 ing the type of funding used, the bank account information of any funds 12 used in the purchase and the amount used by each source of funds. If 13 any source of funds for such purchase originated from a foreign national 14 as defined in section 30121 of title 52 of the United States code, the 15 document shall identify such foreign national including their name and 16 address and any corporate entity owned by such foreign national. 17 (4) The return shall be filed with the recording officer before the 18 instrument effecting the conveyance may be recorded. However, if the tax 19 is paid to the commissioner pursuant to section fourteen hundred ten of 20 this article, the return shall be filed with such commissioner at the 21 time the tax is paid. In that instance, a receipt evidencing the filing 22 of the return and the payment of tax shall be filed with the recording 23 officer before the instrument effecting the conveyance may be recorded. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09620-01-5 
 S. 5716 2 1 The recording officer shall handle such receipt in the same manner as a 2 return filed with the recording officer. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to returns 4 filed on and after January 1, 2026.