Bill Text: WV SB460 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Providing for child and dependent care credit against personal income tax
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-16 - To Finance [SB460 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB460-Introduced.html
FISCAL NOTE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 460
By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel
[By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced January 16, 2024; referred
to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-21-25, relating to providing for a child and dependent care credit against the personal income tax in the amount of 50 percent of the allowed federal tax credit; and specifying retroactive effective date.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 21. PERSONAL INCOME TAX
§11-21-25. Child and dependent care credit.
For tax years beginning on and after January 1, 2024, a person who is allowed a federal tax credit for child and dependent care pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 21 is also allowed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by §11-21-1 et seq. of this code. The amount of the credit allowed to the person claiming the credit under this section is 50 percent of the federal child and dependent care tax credit allowed to the person under the provisions of 26 U.S.C. § 21. This section shall have retrospective effect to apply to taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2024.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide a credit against the personal income tax in the amount of 50% of the allowable federal child and dependent care credit, effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
