Bill Text: NJ S916 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows a gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-01 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S916 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S916-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator NIA H. GILL
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Allows gross income tax deduction for certain higher education tuition and fee expenses.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act allowing a deduction under the gross income tax for certain tuition expenses and supplementing chapter 3 of Title 54A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A taxpayer with gross income for the taxable year of $85,000 or less shall be allowed to deduct from gross income amounts paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year for tuition and fee expenses for the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse and the taxpayer's dependents as a matriculated student at a public or independent institution of higher education accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association which has been recognized by the United States Secretary of Education for the award of such status.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and apply to taxable years commencing after the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill allows taxpayers who have gross income of $85,000 or less in a taxable year to deduct higher education tuition and fee expenses paid in that year from their gross income for that taxable year. The bill allows the deduction for tuition and fees for the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse and the taxpayer's dependents paid to accredited higher education institutions recognized by the United States Secretary of Education. Under current law, there is no deduction for higher education tuition and fee expenses.
