Full Text of HR0451 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In today's world, interstate travel has become | 3 | | both easier and more frequent, allowing for a more mobile | 4 | | workforce; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Many people are employed in industries that call | 6 | | for frequent travel, causing a more complex and arduous tax | 7 | | system; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, In response to a multistate survey, 60% of | 9 | | employers indicated that complying with the State income tax | 10 | | withholding and reporting requirements for employees working | 11 | | in multiple states is currently a major issue or a growing | 12 | | concern; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, It is very difficult to create a system by which | 14 | | an employer can physically identify when and where employees | 15 | | are traveling, in order to determine how much income tax to | 16 | | withhold and report for each state; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Only 44% of employers who responded to the survey | 18 | | currently have any mechanism in place to track and tax their | 19 | | employees based on location; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The federal government has introduced legislation |
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| 1 | | that would create a federal threshold for nonresident filing | 2 | | for temporary employee work assignments in nonresident states | 3 | | in order to address the complexity of nonresident taxation; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, The income of Illinois residents who work | 5 | | temporarily out-of-state is frequently taxed by Illinois and | 6 | | the other states in which they work, causing a double taxation | 7 | | of the portion of income earned out-of-state; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois only has reciprocal | 9 | | agreements with Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Discussions have taken place among several groups | 11 | | in order to find a solution to this double taxation; therefore, | 12 | | be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 | | urge the Illinois Department of Revenue, the Illinois Chamber | 16 | | of Commerce, the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois, the | 17 | | Illinois Manufacturers' Association, and the Illinois Retail | 18 | | Merchants Association to collaborate as a group during the | 19 | | summer and fall of 2015 to produce a solution to the current | 20 | | problem of double taxation of Illinois residents; and be it | 21 | | further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 2 | | delivered to the Illinois Department of Revenue, the Illinois | 3 | | Chamber of Commerce, the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois, the | 4 | | Illinois Manufacturers' Association, and the Illinois Retail | 5 | | Merchants Association.
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