Income tax, state and corporate; conversion to employee ownership.
Summary
Income tax credit; conversion to employee ownership.Creates a nonrefundable, one-time individual and corporate incometax credit for an eligible business that (i) transfers whole or partial ownership to employees in the form of a worker cooperative,an employee stock ownership plan, an employee ownership trust, anemployee equity grant program, or an employee stock purchase planor (ii) is conducting a feasibility study for a transition to suchemployee ownership models. The credit is available for taxable years2022 through 2026, is equal to up to $5,000 per eligible businessthat transfers ownership to employees or incurs costs for conductinga feasibility study for transferring ownership to employees duringthe taxable year, and includes an aggregate annual cap of $5 million.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Last action Jan 26, 2022
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Total actions
6
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Jan 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2023
lower
Jan 20, 2022
Committee
Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101806D
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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