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| | HB5549 Engrossed | | LRB097 20473 HLH 66001 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning revenue.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 10. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Sections 509 and 509.1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (35 ILCS 5/509) (from Ch. 120, par. 5-509)
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| 7 | | Sec. 509. Tax checkoff explanations. All individual income |
| 8 | | tax return forms
shall contain appropriate explanations and |
| 9 | | spaces to enable the taxpayers to
designate contributions to |
| 10 | | the funds to which contributions may be made under this Article |
| 11 | | 5.
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| 12 | | Each form shall contain a statement that the contributions |
| 13 | | will reduce the
taxpayer's refund or increase the amount of |
| 14 | | payment to accompany the return.
Failure to remit any amount of |
| 15 | | increased payment shall reduce the contribution
accordingly.
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| 16 | | If, on October 1 of any year, the total contributions to |
| 17 | | any one of the
funds made under this Article 5 do not equal |
| 18 | | $100,000 or more, the explanations
and spaces for designating |
| 19 | | contributions to the fund shall be removed from the
individual |
| 20 | | income tax return forms for the following and all subsequent |
| 21 | | years
and all subsequent contributions to the fund shall be |
| 22 | | refunded to the taxpayer. This contribution requirement does |
| 23 | | not apply to the Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund checkoff |
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| 1 | | contained in Section 507GG of this Act.
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| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-434, eff. 8-27-07; |
| 3 | | 95-435, eff. 8-27-07; 95-940, eff. 8-29-08; 96-328, eff. |
| 4 | | 8-11-09.)
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| 5 | | (35 ILCS 5/509.1) |
| 6 | | Sec. 509.1. Removal of excess tax-checkoff funds. |
| 7 | | Notwithstanding any provisions of this Act to the contrary, |
| 8 | | beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the |
| 9 | | 95th General Assembly, there may not be more than 15 |
| 10 | | tax-checkoff funds contained on the individual tax return form |
| 11 | | at any one time. Each year, the Department shall determine |
| 12 | | whether the sum of (i) the number of new tax-checkoff funds |
| 13 | | created by the General Assembly during that year plus (ii) the |
| 14 | | number of tax-checkoff funds that collected at least $100,000 |
| 15 | | during the previous year exceeds 15. If so, then the Department |
| 16 | | shall remove a number of tax-checkoff funds that were on the |
| 17 | | return during the previous year that is equal to the sum of |
| 18 | | items (i) and (ii) minus 15, starting with the tax-checkoff |
| 19 | | fund that received the least amount of contributions and |
| 20 | | working upward until a sufficient number of funds have been |
| 21 | | removed.
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| 22 | | For taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2012, the |
| 23 | | Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund checkoff contained in Section |
| 24 | | 507GG of this Act shall be included on the individual tax |
| 25 | | return form notwithstanding the provisions of this Section. The |