Terms Used In New York Laws > Tax > Article 13-A - Tax On Petroleum Businesses

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• commercial fisherman: means a person licensed by an appropriate federal or state agency for the purpose of engaging in the commercial harvesting of fish and who is engaged in the business of harvesting fish for sale. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• commercial fishing vessel: means a vessel which is used directly and predominantly in the harvesting of fish for sale and, if such vessel is required to be documented with the United States Coast Guard, it is currently documented with the United States Coast Guard and has a current fisheries endorsement on such documentation. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• Commercial gallonage: means gallonage (1) which is non-highway diesel motor fuel or residual petroleum product, (2) which is included in the full measure of the non-highway diesel motor fuel component or the residual petroleum product component of the tax imposed under section three hundred one-a of this article, (3) which does not (and will not) qualify (A) for the utility credit or reimbursement provided for in section three hundred one-d of this article, (B) as "manufacturing gallonage" as such term is defined in subdivision (m) of this section, (C) for the not-for-profit organization exemption provided for in subdivision (h) of section three hundred one-b of this article, or (D) for the heating exemption provided for in paragraph two of subdivision (d) of section three hundred one-b of this article or the heating reimbursement provided for in paragraph two of subdivision (a) of section three hundred one-c of this article, and (4) which will not be used nor has been used in the fuel tank connecting with the engine of a vessel. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• corporation: includes a corporation, joint-stock company or association and any business conducted by a trustee or trustees wherein interest or ownership is evidenced by certificate or other written instrument. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• diesel motor fuel: means such term as defined in subdivision fourteen of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter, and
  
  (2) "highway diesel motor fuel" means such term as defined in subdivision sixteen-a of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter, and
  
  (3) "non-highway diesel motor fuel" means such term as defined in subdivision sixteen of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Manufacturing gallonage: means residual petroleum product or non-highway diesel motor fuel used and consumed directly and exclusively in the production of tangible personal property for sale by manufacturing, processing or assembly, but only if (i) all of such fuel or product is delivered on the manufacturing site, or (ii) the purchaser causes such fuel or product to be delivered to its manufacturing site. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• motor fuel: means such term as defined in subdivision two of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• passenger commuter ferry: means a vessel providing mass transportation service. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• petroleum business: means : (1) With respect to motor fuel, every corporation and unincorporated business (i) importing motor fuel or causing motor fuel to be imported into the state for use, distribution, storage or sale in the state, or (ii) producing, refining, manufacturing or compounding motor fuel in the state. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• residual petroleum product: means the topped crude of refinery operations which includes products commonly designated by the petroleum refining industry as "No. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• taxable month: means a calendar month or any part thereof during which a petroleum business is subject to tax under this article. See N.Y. Tax Law 300
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• unincorporated business: means any trade, business or occupation conducted, engaged in or being liquidated by an individual or unincorporated entity, including a partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, unincorporated association, fiduciary, or a corporation in liquidation. See N.Y. Tax Law 300