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IN SB0525

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/17/2017

Primary Sponsor

Mark Stoops

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Origin

Senate

2017 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Indiana corporate income tax law to impose a 6.25% tax rate on corporations that employ workers at hourly rates below a defined "living wage" starting after June 30, 2017.

  • Defines "living wage" as an hourly rate that, if paid to a full-time employee, would exceed maximum income limits for TANF, Medicaid, food stamp assistance, or the federal WIC program.

  • Corporations meeting the living wage threshold for all employees remain eligible for the scheduled corporate tax rate phase-down under current law, which decreases from 6.25% to 4.9% by 2021.

  • Applies to any corporation employing one or more employees during a taxable year at an hourly rate below the living wage standard.

  • Effective July 1, 2017.

Legislative Description

Corporate income tax rates. Provides that the income tax rate phase-down for corporations under current law shall not apply to a corporation that employs one or more employees during the taxable year at an hourly rate that is less than a living wage. Defines "living wage" as an hourly rate that if paid to a full-time employee would be sufficient to exceed the maximum income limits applicable to the employee for any of the following public assistance: (1) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF). (2) Medicaid assistance. (3) Food stamp assistance under federal law. (4) The federal Special Supplemental

Last Action

First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy

1/17/2017

Committee Referrals

Tax and Fiscal Policy1/17/2017

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