§ 176. Transfer of the powers and duties of the comptroller in relation to the assessment or collection of certain taxes. On and after July first, nineteen hundred twenty-one, all the powers and duties now conferred or imposed upon the state comptroller in relation to the taxation of corporations under articles nine and nine-A of this chapter, in relation to the taxation of transfers of property, under article ten of this chapter, in relation to the taxation of transfers of stock, under article twelve of this chapter, and in relation to taxation upon and with respect to personal income, under article sixteen of this chapter (as such article was in effect on December thirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty), shall be transferred to and thereafter shall be exercised and performed by the commissioner, except as powers and duties under any such article are expressly conferred upon or continued in the state comptroller by acts of the legislature of nineteen hundred twenty-one, enacted subsequent to chapter ninety of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-one.