Bill Text: CA AB53 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Personal income taxes: deduction: homeownership savings accounts.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 17-1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB53 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB53-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Personal income taxes: deduction: homeownership savings accounts.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 17-1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB53 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB53-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 53 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Steinorth |
December 05, 2016 |
An act to add Sections 17141.5 and 17204.5 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 53, as introduced, Steinorth.
Personal income taxes: deduction: homeownership savings accounts.
The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows various exclusions from gross income, and allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the taxes imposed by that law, including miscellaneous itemized deductions that are allowed only to the extent that the aggregate amount of those deductions exceeds 2% of adjusted gross income.
This bill, on and after January 1, 2017, would allow a deduction, not to exceed specified amounts, of the amount a qualified taxpayer, as defined, contributed in any taxable year to a homeownership savings account and would exclude from gross income any income earned on the moneys contributed to a homeownership savings account. The bill would provide that a qualified taxpayer may withdraw amounts from a homeownership savings account to pay for qualified
homeownership savings expenses, defined as expenses paid or incurred in connection with the purchase of a principal residence in this state. The bill would provide that any amount withdrawn from that account that is not used for these expenses would be included as income for that taxpayer. The bill would define various terms for its purposes.
This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 17141.5 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read:17141.5.
For each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2017, gross income does not include, under the same conditions as provided in Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to individual retirement accounts, any income accruing during the taxable year to a homeownership savings account as defined in Section 17204.5.SEC. 2.
Section 17204.5 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read:17204.5.
(a) For each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2017, there shall be allowed as a deduction an amount equal to the amount contributed by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year to a homeownership savings account, not to exceed the amounts specified in subdivision (b).(b) The deduction allowed under subdivision (a) shall not exceed the following amounts:
(1) Twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for qualified taxpayers filing a joint return, a head of household, and surviving spouses, as defined in Section 17046.
(2) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in the case of a qualified taxpayer filing a return
other than as described in paragraph (1).
(c) Any amount withdrawn from a homeownership savings account shall be included in the income of the payee or distributee for the taxable year in which the payment or distribution is made, unless the payment or distribution is used to pay for the qualified homeownership savings expenses of a qualified taxpayer who established the account.
(d) For purposes of this section:
(1) “Homeownership savings account” means a trust that meets all of the following requirements:
(A) Is designated as a homeownership savings account by the trustee.
(B) Is established by a qualified taxpayer, or by qualified taxpayers who are spouses, for the exclusive benefit
of any qualified taxpayer establishing the account where the written governing instrument creating the account provides for the following:
(i) All contributions to the account are required to be in cash.
(ii) The account is established to pay, pursuant to the requirements and limitations of this section, for the qualified homeownership savings expenses of a qualified taxpayer establishing the account.
(C) Is, except as otherwise required or authorized by this section, subject to the same requirements and limitations as an individual retirement account established under Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to individual retirement accounts, and any regulations adopted thereunder.
(D) Is the only homeownership savings account established
by the qualified taxpayer.
(2) “Qualified homeownership savings expenses” means expenses, including a downpayment or closing costs, paid or incurred in connection with the purchase of a qualified taxpayer’s principal residence within the meaning of Section 121 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to exclusion of gain from sale of principal residence, in this state for use by that qualified taxpayer who established the homeownership savings account.
(3) “Qualified taxpayer” means any individual, or individual’s spouse, who had no present ownership interest in a principal residence within the meaning of Section 121 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to exclusion of gain from sale of principal residence, during the preceding three-year period ending either on the date of the individual’s, or individual’s spouse’s, contribution to a homeownership savings account or on the date
of the individual’s, or individual’s spouse’s, purchase of the principal residence for which any amount is withdrawn from the individual’s, or individual’s spouse’s, homeownership savings account.
(4) “Trustee” shall have the same meaning as that term has under Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to individual retirement accounts, and any regulations adopted thereunder.
