Bill Text: NJ A4900 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides gross income tax deductions for certain education loan payments made by certain taxpayers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-17 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A4900 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A4900-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ROY FREIMAN
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Provides gross income tax deductions for certain education loan payments made by certain taxpayers.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act providing gross income tax deductions for certain education loan payments and supplementing Title 54A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A taxpayer with New Jersey taxable income of less than $75,000 for a taxable year shall be allowed to deduct from gross income an amount equal to the interest and principal paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan.
b. A taxpayer with New Jersey taxable income of at least $75,000, but not more than $150,000, for a taxable year shall be allowed to deduct from gross income an amount equal to the interest paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan.
c. In order to claim a deduction pursuant to this section, the qualified education loan shall have been incurred for the education of the taxpayer.
d. Except as otherwise required by this section, "qualified education loan" shall have the meaning given that term in section 221 of the federal Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. s.221).
2. a. A taxpayer with New Jersey taxable income of less than $100,000 for a taxable year shall be allowed to deduct from gross income an amount equal to the interest and principal paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan incurred for the education of a dependent of the taxpayer, provided that the dependent qualifies as a dependent for the taxable year in which the deduction is taken.
b. A taxpayer with New Jersey taxable income of at least $100,000, but not more than $175,000, for a taxable year shall be allowed to deduct from gross income an amount equal to the interest paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan incurred for the education of a dependent of the taxpayer, provided that the dependent qualifies as a dependent for the taxable year in which the deduction is taken.
c. Except as otherwise required by this section, "qualified education loan" shall have the meaning given that term in section 221 of the federal Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. s.221). "Dependent" shall have the meaning given that term in section 152 of the federal Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. s.152).
3. This act shall take effect
immediately and apply to taxable years beginning on or after the January 1 next
following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill provides gross income tax deductions for certain education loan payments made by taxpayers with New Jersey taxable income below certain specified thresholds. The deductions would be available to certain taxpayers that are making payments on qualified education loans incurred for their own education and for certain taxpayers that are making payments on qualified education loans incurred on behalf of a dependent of the taxpayer. The bill provides that the terms "qualified education loan" and "dependent," except as otherwise required by the bill, have the meaning given those terms in identified sections of the Internal Revenue Code.
Specifically, a taxpayer with New Jersey taxable income of less than $75,000 for the taxable year may deduct from gross income amounts paid as principal and interest on a qualified education loan, provided that the taxpayer was the student on whose behalf the loan was incurred. For taxpayers whose New Jersey taxable income is at least $75,000, but not more than $150,000, for a taxable year, the deduction would be in an amount equal to the interest paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan, provided that the taxpayer was the student on whose behalf the loan was incurred.
The bill also provides gross income tax deductions for certain taxpayers who make student loan payments on behalf of a dependent, provided that the dependent qualifies as a dependent for the taxable year in which the deduction is taken. Taxpayers with New Jersey taxable income of less than $100,000 for a taxable year, could deduct an amount equal to the interest and principal paid by the taxpayer on a qualified education loan incurred on behalf of a dependent of the taxpayer. Taxpayers with New Jersey taxable income of at least $100,000, but not more than $175,000, for a taxable year, could deduct from gross income an amount equal to the interest paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan incurred for the education of a dependent.
The bill would apply to taxable years beginning on or after the January 1 next following enactment.
