Full Text of HB2429 98th General Assembly
HB2429 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 HB2429 Introduced , by Rep. Stephanie A Kifowit SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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35 ILCS 5/509 | from Ch. 120, par. 5-509 |
35 ILCS 5/509.1 | |
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that the Department shall include the Veterans' Homes Fund checkoff on the individual income tax form for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Provides that the Veterans' Homes Fund checkoff shall not be included when calculating the 15 tax-checkoff fund limitation. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning revenue.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Sections 509 and 509.1 as follows:
| 6 | | (35 ILCS 5/509) (from Ch. 120, par. 5-509)
| 7 | | Sec. 509. Tax checkoff explanations. | 8 | | (a) All individual income tax return forms
shall contain | 9 | | appropriate explanations and spaces to enable the taxpayers to
| 10 | | designate contributions to the funds to which contributions may | 11 | | be made under this Article 5.
| 12 | | (b) Each form shall contain a statement that the | 13 | | contributions will reduce the
taxpayer's refund or increase the | 14 | | amount of payment to accompany the return.
Failure to remit any | 15 | | amount of increased payment shall reduce the contribution
| 16 | | accordingly.
| 17 | | (c) If, on October 1 of any year, the total contributions | 18 | | to any one of the
funds made under this Article 5 do not equal | 19 | | $100,000 or more, the explanations
and spaces for designating | 20 | | contributions to the fund shall be removed from the
individual | 21 | | income tax return forms for the following and all subsequent | 22 | | years
and all subsequent contributions to the fund shall be | 23 | | refunded to the taxpayer. This contribution requirement does |
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| 1 | | not apply to the Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund checkoff | 2 | | contained in Section 507GG of this Act or the Veterans' Homes | 3 | | Fund checkoff contained in Section 507DD of this Act .
| 4 | | (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the | 5 | | Department shall include the Hunger Relief Fund checkoff | 6 | | established under Section 507SS on the individual income tax | 7 | | form for the taxable year beginning on January 1, 2012. If, on | 8 | | October 1, 2013, or on October 1 of any subsequent year, the | 9 | | total contributions to the Hunger Relief Fund checkoff do not | 10 | | equal $100,000 or more, the explanations
and spaces for | 11 | | designating contributions to the fund shall be removed from the
| 12 | | individual income tax return forms for the following and all | 13 | | subsequent years
and all subsequent contributions to the fund | 14 | | shall be refunded to the taxpayer. | 15 | | (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the | 16 | | Department shall include the Veterans' Homes Fund checkoff | 17 | | established under Section 507DD on the individual income tax | 18 | | form for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, | 19 | | 2013. | 20 | | (Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 97-1117, eff. 8-27-12.)
| 21 | | (35 ILCS 5/509.1) | 22 | | Sec. 509.1. Removal of excess tax-checkoff funds. | 23 | | Notwithstanding any provisions of this Act to the contrary, | 24 | | beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 25 | | 95th General Assembly, there may not be more than 15 |
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| 1 | | tax-checkoff funds contained on the individual tax return form | 2 | | at any one time. Each year, the Department shall determine | 3 | | whether the sum of (i) the number of new tax-checkoff funds | 4 | | created by the General Assembly during that year plus (ii) the | 5 | | number of tax-checkoff funds that collected at least $100,000 | 6 | | during the previous year exceeds 15. If so, then the Department | 7 | | shall remove a number of tax-checkoff funds that were on the | 8 | | return during the previous year that is equal to the sum of | 9 | | items (i) and (ii) minus 15, starting with the tax-checkoff | 10 | | fund that received the least amount of contributions and | 11 | | working upward until a sufficient number of funds have been | 12 | | removed. The Hunger Relief Fund checkoff established under | 13 | | Section 507SS shall be included among the 15 tax-checkoff funds | 14 | | as provided in subsection (d) of Section 509 of this Act.
| 15 | | For taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2012, the | 16 | | Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund checkoff contained in Section | 17 | | 507GG of this Act shall be included on the individual tax | 18 | | return form notwithstanding the provisions of this Section. The | 19 | | Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund checkoff shall not be included | 20 | | when calculating the 15 tax-checkoff fund limitation set forth | 21 | | in this Section. | 22 | | The Veterans' Homes Fund checkoff established under | 23 | | Section 507DD shall not be included when calculating the 15 | 24 | | tax-checkoff fund limitation set forth in this Section. | 25 | | (Source: P.A. 97-1117, eff. 8-27-12.)
| 26 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| 1 | | becoming law.
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