N.Y. Economic Development Law Section 483
Eligibility criteria

1.

To be eligible for a tax credit under the COVID-19 capital costs tax credit program, a business entity must:

(a)

be a small business as defined in § 131 (Definition of a small business)section one hundred thirty-one of this chapter and have two million five hundred thousand dollars or less of gross receipts in the taxable year that includes December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one;

(b)

operate a business location in New York state; and

(c)

have at least two thousand dollars in qualifying COVID-19 capital costs.

2.

A business entity must be in substantial compliance with any public health or other emergency orders or regulations related to the entity’s business sector or other laws and regulations as determined by the commissioner. In addition, a business entity may not owe past due state taxes or local property taxes unless the business entity is making payments and complying with an approved binding payment agreement entered into with the taxing authority.

Source: Section 483 — Eligibility criteria, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/COM/483 (updated Apr. 22, 2022; accessed Jan. 31, 2026).

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