Bill Text: NJ S2763 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases age of dependent for whom gross income tax exemption for higher education expenses may be claimed from under 22 years to under 27 years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-09 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S2763 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S2763-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2763

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 2, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  SANDRA B. CUNNINGHAM

District 31 (Hudson)

Senator  NELLIE POU

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Increases age of dependent for whom gross income tax exemption for higher education expenses may be claimed from under 22 years to under 27 years.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the personal deduction under the gross income tax for support of dependents attending post-secondary institutions of higher education and amending P.L.1976, c.84.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.1976, c.84 (C.54A:3-1.1) is amended to read as follows:

     In addition to the exemptions allowed under N.J.S. 54A:3-1, each taxpayer shall be allowed an additional exemption which may be taken as a deduction from [his] the taxpayer's New Jersey gross income in amount of $1,000.00 for each dependent under the age of [22] 27 years who is attending an accredited post-secondary institution of  higher education on a full time basis and for whom the taxpayer paid one-half  or more of the costs of tuition and maintenance of the dependent's attendance  at such institution.

(cf:  P.L.1976, c.84, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1 next following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill increases the age of a dependent, from under 22 years to under 27 years, for whom a taxpayer is allowed a gross income tax deduction for tuition and maintenance at an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education.  Under current law, a taxpayer is allowed a gross income tax deduction for each dependent child under the age of 22 who is attending an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education on a full-time basis.  The deduction is available to taxpayers who provide one-half or more of the cost of a dependent's tuition and maintenance at an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education.  The age of a dependent child for whom deduction may be claimed has not been changed since this statute was enacted in 1976.