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2007 SESSION
HB 1843 Income tax, state; Public/Private Educ. Investment tax credits for business entities, etc., report.
Introduced by: Christopher B. Saxman | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Income tax; Public/Private Education Investment tax credit. Creates income tax credits for business entities and individual taxpayers who make contributions to eligible public school foundations and eligible scholarship foundations. For individual taxpayers, the amount of the annual credit is 100% of the contribution but may not exceed $800 for individual taxpayers and $1,200 for married taxpayers filing jointly. The amount of the annual credit for business entities is 90% of the contribution with no limit on the dollar amount.
The public school foundations are required to disburse annually 90% of the contributions for capital improvement projects approved by the local school board and for extracurricular activities. The scholarship foundations are required to disburse 90% of its contributions for qualified educational expenses through scholarships.
There is a $20 million cap on total tax credits awarded annually, with $10 million allocated for contributions made to public school foundations and $10 million allocated for contributions made to scholarship foundations.
The credit would be effective for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2007.
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HISTORY
- 01/03/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 074756496
- 01/03/07 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 01/10/07 House: Assigned Finance sub: #1 (Orrock)
- 01/31/07 House: Reported from Finance (11-Y 9-N)
- 02/02/07 House: Read first time
- 02/03/07 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/05/07 House: Read third time and passed House (53-Y 45-N)
- 02/05/07 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (53-Y 45-N)
- 02/06/07 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/06/07 House: Passed House (56-Y 43-N)
- 02/06/07 House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (56-Y 43-N)
- 02/06/07 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/07/07 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/07 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/07 Senate: Rereferred from Education and Health (12-Y 1-N)
- 02/12/07 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/13/07 Senate: Left in Finance