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What is NYC AC § 11-1919?

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This section addresses the tax filing requirements for individuals who change their residence status between resident and nonresident during the taxable year. It outlines the procedures for filing returns and determining taxable wages, including special accruals and prorations. Applies to individuals subject to city income tax based on their residency status.

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§ 11-1919 Change of residence status during year.

AC § 11-1919

(a)General. If an individual changes his or her status during his or her taxable year from resident to nonresident, or from nonresident to resident, he or she shall file a return as a nonresident for the portion of the year during which he or she is a nonresident if he or she is subject to the tax imposed by this chapter or, if not subject to such tax, an information return for the portion of the year during which he or she is a nonresident, subject to such exceptions as the commissioner may prescribe by regulation. Such information return shall be due at the same time as the return required by chapter seventeen of this title for the portion of the year during which such individual is a resident.

(b)City taxable wages and net earnings from self-employment for portion of year individual is a nonresident. The city taxable wages and net earnings from self-employment for the portion of the year during which he or she is a nonresident shall be determined, except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section, under this chapter as if his or her taxable year for federal income tax purposes were limited to the period of his or her nonresident status.

(c)Special accruals.

(1)If an individual changes his or her status from resident to nonresident, he or she shall, regardless of his or her method of accounting, accrue for the portion of the taxable year prior to such change of status any items of income, gain, loss or deduction accruing prior to the change of status, if not otherwise properly includible (whether or not because of an election to report on an installment basis) or allowable for city earnings tax purposes for such portion of the taxable year for a prior taxable year. The amounts of such accrued items shall be determined as if such accrued items were includible or allowable for federal self-employment tax purposes.

(2)If an individual changes his or her status from nonresident to resident, he or she shall, regardless of his or her method of accounting, accrue for the portion of the taxable year prior to such change of status any items of income, gain, loss or deduction accruing prior to the change of status any items of income, gain, loss or deduction accruing prior to the change of status, if not otherwise properly includible (whether or not because of an election to report on an installment basis) or allowable for federal self-employment tax purposes for such portion of the taxable year or for prior taxable year. The amounts of such accrued items shall be determined if such accrued items were includible or allowable for federal self-employment tax purposes.

(3)No item of income, gain, loss or deduction which is accrued under this subdivision shall be taken into account in determining city adjusted wages earned, or net earnings from self-employment, within the city, for any subsequent taxable period.

(4)Where an individual changes his or her status from resident to nonresident, the accruals under this subdivision shall not be required if the individual files with the commissioner a bond or other security acceptable to the commissioner, conditioned upon the inclusion of amounts accruable under this subdivision in city adjusted gross income under chapter seventeen of this title for one or more subsequent taxable years as if the individual has not changed his or her resident status. In such event, the tax under this chapter shall not apply to such amounts.

(d)Prorations. Where an individual changes his or her status during his or her taxable year from resident to nonresident or from nonresident to resident, the exclusion allowable under subdivision (b) of section 11-1902 of this chapter shall be prorated, under regulations of the commissioner, to reflect the portions of the entire taxable year during which the individual was a resident and a nonresident.

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