Bill Text: WV SB98 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Residential solar energy tax credits
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - To Energy, Industry and Mining [SB98 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2016-SB98-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2016 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 98
By Senators Miller, Kessler, Romano, Woelfel, Beach, Snyder and Facemire
[Introduced January 13,
2016;
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the
Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §11-13Z-1 and §11-13Z-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to residential solar energy tax credits; applying credit to residential installation of solar energy system or systems; and extending tax credit until July 1, 2022.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §11-13Z-1 and §11-13Z-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 13Z. RESIDENTIAL SOLAR ENERGY TAX CREDIT.
§11-13Z-1. Amount of credit.
Any taxpayer who installs
or causes to be installed a solar energy system or systems on property
located in this state and owned by the taxpayer and used as a residence after
July 1, 2009, shall be is allowed a credit against the taxes
imposed in article twenty-one of this chapter in an amount equal to thirty
percent of the cost to purchase and install the system or systems up to
a maximum amount of $2,000, for each installation.
§11-13Z-3. Carryover credit allowed; Tax Commissioner to promulgate rules.
If the amount of the credit exceeds the taxpayer’s liability for the taxable year, the amount which exceeds the tax liability may be carried over and applied as a credit against the tax liability of the taxpayer pursuant to the provisions of article twenty-one of this chapter to each of the next taxable years unless sooner used.
The State Tax Commissioner
shall promulgate legislative rules pursuant to the provisions of chapter
twenty-nine-a of this code regarding the applicability, method of claiming of
the credit, recapture of the credit and documentation necessary to claim the
credit allowed by this article. No taxpayer shall may take a
credit pursuant to this article for a solar energy system installed after July
1, 2013 2023.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to apply the residential solar energy tax credit of up to $2,000 to each installation of a solar energy system. The bill extends the tax credit until July 1, 2023.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
