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AL HB353
Bill
Status
2/27/2020
Primary Sponsor
Danny Garrett
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AI Summary
HB353 Summary: Alabama Business Tax Competitiveness Act
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Reduces tax rates: Decreases financial institution excise tax from 6.5% to 4.75% and corporate income tax from 6.5% to 4.75%, effective for tax years beginning January 1, 2021 (pending constitutional amendment).
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Eliminates federal income tax deduction: Repeals the deduction for federal income taxes paid for both financial institutions and corporations, offsetting the rate reduction.
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Changes apportionment formula: Shifts corporate income tax apportionment from a three-factor formula (property, payroll, and double-weighted sales) to a single-sales-factor formula.
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Decouples from federal tax changes: Disconnects Alabama income tax from 2017 federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions regarding capital contributions from state economic development grants, global intangible low-tax income, and business interest expense limitations.
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Creates Electing Pass-Through Entity option: Allows S corporations and Subchapter K entities to elect entity-level taxation at 3.95% rate (effective January 1, 2021) instead of pass-through taxation to individual owners/members.
Legislative Description
Corporate income tax rate and financial institution excise tax rate, decreased, apportionment factor for corporate income tax rates revised, State income tax decoupled from fed. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, electing pass-through entities, taxed at entity level, Ala. Business Tax Competitiveness Act, Secs. 40-16-1.2, 40-16-4, 40-18-31, 40-18-34, 40-18-35, 40-27-1 am'd.
Taxation
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means Education
2/27/2020