Bill Text: MA S1273 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced


Bill Title: For legislation relative to the senior circuit breaker tax credit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Public Hearing date 6/3 at 10:00 AM in Hearing Room B2 [S1273 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-S1273-Introduced.html

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Fargo, Susan (SEN)

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to the senior circuit breaker tax credit.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Fargo, Susan (SEN)

Third Middlesex

Alice Hanlon Peisch

14th Norfolk

Barbara A. L'Italien

18th Essex

Harriette L. Chandler

First Worcester

Scott P. Brown

Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex

William Lantigua

16th Essex

Frank I. Smizik

15th Norfolk

Kevin G. Honan

17th Suffolk

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

Cynthia Stone Creem

First Middlesex and Norfolk

Stephen L. DiNatale

3rd Worcester

Thomas P. Conroy

13th Middlesex

John A. Hart, Jr.

First Suffolk

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

Kenneth J. Donnelly

Fourth Middlesex

Robert L. Hedlund

Plymouth and Norfolk

Richard T. Moore

Worcester and Norfolk

Theodore C. Speliotis

13th Essex

James B. Eldridge

Middlesex and Worcester

Anne M. Gobi

5th Worcester

Carl M. Sciortino, Jr.

34th Middlesex

Thomas M. McGee

Third Essex and Middlesex

Cory Atkins

14th Middlesex

Gale D. Candaras

First Hampden and Hampshire

Thomas P. Kennedy

Second Plymouth and Bristol

James Arciero

2nd Middlesex

William Smitty Pignatelli

4th Berkshire

Denis E. Guyer

2nd Berkshire

Jay R. Kaufman

15th Middlesex

Mark C. Montigny

Second Bristol and Plymouth

Benjamin Swan

11th Hampden

Peter J. Koutoujian

10th Middlesex


 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. S01728 OF 2007-2008.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act relative to the senior circuit breaker tax credit.



                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Paragraph (2) of subsection (k) of section 6 of chapter 62 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is amended by inserting after the figure “$750”, as so appearing, at the end of said paragraph, the following words:- ; except, in the event that the taxpayer’s total income does not exceed 50 percent of the income limitation as applicable to the taxpayer under clause (i) of paragraph (3) of this subsection, as increased under paragraph (4) of this subsection, then such amount to which the real estate tax payment or the rent constituting real estate tax payment exceeds the taxpayer’s total income shall be calculated based on 8 ½ percent of such total income.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect as of January 1, 2009.

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