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For the privilege of selling liquor, wine or beer at retail, for on or off premises consumption, within the city of New York, there is hereby imposed and there shall be paid annually for each tax year, commencing with the tax year beginning June first, nineteen hundred eighty, a tax to be paid by each retail licensee in an amount equal to twenty-five percent of the license fees payable under the state alcoholic beverage control law by such retail licensee for the license year in effect at the commencement of the tax year under this chapter. A retail licensee who obtains a license subsequent to the commencement of a tax year shall pay the tax based upon fees payable under the state alcoholic beverage control law by such licensee for the license year in effect at the time such license is issued. This tax shall be in addition to any and all other taxes paid by such retail licensee.
The tax imposed by this chapter shall not apply to the following:
(a) The state of New York, or any of its agencies, instrumentalities, public corporations (including a public corporation created pursuant to agreement or compact with another state or Canada) or political subdivisions;
(b) The United States of America, and any of its agencies and instrumentalities insofar as it is immune from taxation;
(c) The United Nations or other international organizations of which the United States of America is a member; and
(d) Any corporation, or association, or trust, or community chest, fund or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, and no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, and no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall include an organization operated for the primary purpose of carrying on a trade or business for profit, whether or not all of its profits are payable to one or more organizations described in this subdivision.
Every retail licensee shall keep such records of its business and in such form as the commissioner may by regulation require. Such records shall be offered for inspection and examination at any time upon demand by the commissioner or his or her duly authorized agent or employee and shall be preserved for a period of three years, except that the commissioner may consent to their destruction within that period or may require that they be kept longer.
a. On or before the twenty-fifth day of June in each tax year, every person subject to tax hereunder shall file a return with the commissioner on a form prescribed by the commissioner. A retail licensee who obtains a license subsequent to the commencement of a tax year shall file a return for such tax year on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month following the month in which such license was obtained.
b. The return shall state the amount of license fees paid to the state under the alcoholic beverage control law and the date when a license under such law was issued to the retail licensee and shall contain any other information which the commissioner may deem necessary for the proper administration of this chapter. The commissioner may require amended returns to be filed within twenty days after notice and to contain the information specified in the notice.
c. If a return required by this chapter is not filed or if a return when filed is incorrect or insufficient on its face, the commissioner shall take the necessary steps to enforce the filing of such a return or of a corrected return.
d. The return otherwise required to be filed on or before June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred eighty under the provisions of subdivision a of this section, shall be made and filed on or before August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred eighty.
At the time of filing a return each person shall pay to the commissioner the tax imposed hereunder. Such tax shall be due and payable on the last day on which such return is required to be filed, regardless of whether a return is filed or whether the return which is filed correctly indicates the amount of tax due.
If a return required by this chapter is not filed, or if a return when filed is incorrect or insufficient, the commissioner shall determine the amount of tax due from such information as may be obtainable and, if necessary, may estimate the tax on the basis of external indices. Notice of such determination shall be given to the person liable for the payment of the tax. Such determination shall finally and irrevocably fix the tax unless the person against whom it is assessed, within ninety days after the giving of notice of such determination, or, if the commissioner of finance has established a conciliation procedure pursuant to section 11-124 of the code and the taxpayer has requested a conciliation conference in accordance therewith, within ninety days from the mailing of a conciliation decision or the date of the commissioner's confirmation of the discontinuance of the conciliation proceeding, both (1) serves a petition upon the commissioner of finance and (2) files a petition with the tax appeals tribunal for a hearing, or unless the commissioner of his or her own motion shall redetermine the same. Such hearing and any appeal to the tax appeals tribunal sitting en banc from the decision rendered in such hearing shall be conducted in the manner and subject to the requirements prescribed by the tax appeals tribunal pursuant to sections one hundred sixty-eight through one hundred seventy-two of the charter. After such hearing the tax appeals tribunal shall give notice of its decision to the person against whom the tax is assessed and to the commissioner of finance. A decision of the tax appeals tribunal sitting en banc shall be reviewable for error, illegality or unconstitutionality or any other reason whatsoever by a proceeding under article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules if application therefor is made to the supreme court by the person against whom the tax was assessed within four months after the giving of the notice of such tax appeals tribunal decision. A proceeding under article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules shall not be instituted by a taxpayer unless: (a) the amount of any tax sought to be reviewed, with penalties and interest thereon, if any, shall be first deposited with the commissioner and there shall be filed with the commissioner an undertaking issued by a surety company authorized to transact business in this state and approved by the superintendent of insurance of this state as to solvency and responsibility, in such amount as a justice of the supreme court shall approve, to the effect that if such proceeding be dismissed or the tax confirmed, the taxpayer will pay all costs and charges which may accrue in the prosecution of the proceedings or (b) at the option of the taxpayer, such undertaking may be in a sum sufficient to cover the taxes, interest and penalties stated in such decision, plus the costs and charges which may accrue against it in the prosecution of the proceeding, in which event the taxpayer shall not be required to pay such taxes, interest or penalties as a condition precedent to the application.
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