Section 171-N. Certain overpayments credited against outstanding tax debts owed to other states  


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  • (1) For the purposes of this section:    (a) "overpayment" means an amount requested for  refund  or  otherwise
      determined  to  be  in  excess  of  that  owed,  with respect to any tax
      administered by the commissioner and remaining after application, as may
      be determined by the commissioner, to the satisfaction of debts owed  by
      a taxpayer to this state or the federal government;
        (b) "taxpayer" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited
      liability  partnership  or  company,  partner,  member, manager, estate,
      trust, fiduciary or entity, who or which has made an overpayment of  any
      tax administered by the commissioner;
        (c)  "tax debt" means any past due, legally enforceable tax obligation
      owed any other state administering that tax, which arises  from  (i)  an
      enforceable  judgment  of  a court of competent jurisdiction which is no
      longer subject to judicial review, or (ii) an enforceable  determination
      of  an  administrative body which is no longer subject to administrative
      or judicial review, or (iii) an assessment or  determination  (including
      self-assessment  or  self-assessed determination) which has become final
      or finally and irrevocably fixed and no longer subject to administrative
      or judicial review; and
        (d) "claimant state" means any state which requests application of  an
      overpayment to a tax debt.
        (2)  The  commissioner may, in his or her discretion, agree to pay the
      whole or part of an overpayment of tax administered by the  commissioner
      to a claimant state owed a tax debt by a taxpayer, provided the claimant
      state   grants  substantially  similar  privileges  to  this  state.  An
      agreement with a claimant state must provide  for  thirty  days  advance
      written  notice to, and an opportunity for, taxpayers to present written
      or oral evidence about application of their overpayments to tax debts. A
      proceeding may be commenced by a taxpayer within  four  months  after  a
      copy of a decision adverse to the taxpayer is mailed to the taxpayer for
      judicial  review  of  the  decision  in  the  manner provided by article
      seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules. Article forty of this
      chapter shall not apply to any  hearing  or  proceeding  on  whether  an
      overpayment  may  be  applied  to  a  tax  debt  in accordance with this
      section. The remedy provided by this section for review of hearings  and
      proceedings  shall  be  the  exclusive  remedy  available  to judicially
      determine whether an overpayment  may  be  applied  to  a  tax  debt  in
      accordance  with this section. The amount of a tax debt remaining due as
      certified by a claimant state shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the
      correct amount of a tax debt.