Senate Bill sb1582

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1582

    By Senator Bullard





    39-1625-05                                          See HB 243

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the corporate income tax;

  3         creating s. 220.192, F.S.; providing a tax

  4         credit for donations to the Cultural

  5         Institutions Trust Fund; providing that the

  6         unused amount of a credit may not be carried

  7         forward; prohibiting conveying, assigning, or

  8         transferring the credit to another entity

  9         except as specified; providing application

10         procedures; providing for rulemaking by the

11         Department of Revenue; providing an effective

12         date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Section 220.192, Florida Statutes, is

17  created to read:

18         220.192  Cultural contributions tax credit.--

19         (1)  A credit in the amount of 50 percent of a

20  contribution to the Cultural Institutions Trust Fund is

21  allowed against any tax due for a taxable year under this

22  chapter.

23         (2)(a)  If the credit granted under this section is not

24  fully used in any one year, the unused amount may not be

25  carried forward. A taxpayer may not convey, assign, or

26  transfer the credit authorized by this section to another

27  entity unless all of the assets of the taxpayer are conveyed,

28  assigned, or transferred in the same transaction.

29         (b)  An application for a tax credit under this section

30  shall be submitted to the department on forms established by

31  rule of the department.

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1582
    39-1625-05                                          See HB 243




 1         (c)  The department shall adopt rules necessary to

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