Bill Text: WV SB9 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Alleviating double taxation on foreign income at state level
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-09 - To Finance [SB9 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-SB9-Introduced.html
WEST
virginia legislature
2019 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 9
By Senators Blair, Plymale, and Boso
[Introduced
January 9, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend and reenact §11-21-20 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to personal income tax; alleviating double taxation on foreign income at the state level; and sunsetting the credit for income tax paid on foreign income in 2068.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 21. PERSONAL INCOME TAX.
§11-21-20. Credit for income tax of another state and foreign country.
(a) General. -- A resident shall be is allowed
a credit against the tax otherwise due under this article for any income tax
imposed for the taxable year by another state of the United States or by the
District of Columbia, or by a foreign country upon income both derived
therefrom and subject to tax under this article.
(b) Limitations. -- (1) The credit under this section shall
may not exceed the percentage of the tax otherwise due under this
article determined by dividing the portion of the taxpayer's West Virginia
income subject to taxation by such the other jurisdiction by the
total amount of the taxpayer's West Virginia income.
(2) The credit under this section shall may
not reduce the tax otherwise due under this article to an amount less than
would have been due if the income subject to taxation by such the
other jurisdiction were excluded from the taxpayer's West Virginia income.
(c) Exception. -- No credit shall be is allowed
under this section for a tax of a jurisdiction which allows residents of this
state a credit against the taxes imposed by such other jurisdiction for the tax
under this article, if such the other credit is substantially
similar to the credit granted by §11-21-40 of this code.
(d) Sunset provision. – The credit allowed against the tax otherwise due under this article for any income tax imposed for the taxable year by a foreign country upon income both derived therefrom and subject to tax under this article is effective from the amendment and reenactment of this section during the regular session of the Legislature in 2019 through July 1, 2069.
(d) (e) Definition. -- For purposes of this
section West Virginia income means:
(1) The West Virginia adjusted gross income of an individual, or
(2) The amount of the income of an estate or trust, determined as if the estate or trust were an individual computing his or her West Virginia adjusted gross income under §11-21-12 of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to alleviate double taxation on foreign income at the state level under the personal income tax. The section sunsets the credit for foreign income in 2069.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.