HOUSE BILL No. 4712

 

May 20, 2003, Introduced by Reps. Robertson, Huizenga, Tabor, DeRossett, Ward, Stakoe, Garfield, Nitz, Hager, Woronchak, Nofs, Van Regenmorter, Acciavatti, Pappageorge, Sheen, Shaffer, Middaugh, Koetje, Ruth Johnson, Casperson, Milosch, Taub, Voorhees, Kooiman, Vander Veen, Amos, Ehardt, Pumford, Shulman, Brandenburg, Rocca, Hoogendyk, Wenke, Moolenaar, Stahl, Howell, Shackleton, Bisbee, Palmer, Caswell and LaJoy and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

        

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                

                                                                                 A bill to amend 1964 PA 284, entitled                                             

                                                                                

    "City income tax act,"                                                      

                                                                                

    by amending section 32 of chapter 2 (MCL 141.632).                          

                                                                                

                THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:                      

                                                                                

1                               CHAPTER 2                                       

                                                                                

2       Sec. 32.  (1) The following  payments and benefits  amounts                 

                                                                                

3   received by any person are not subject to the tax under this                

                                                                                

4   ordinance:                                                                  

                                                                                

5       (a) Gifts and bequests.                                                     

                                                                                

6       (b) Proceeds of insurance  , annuities, pensions and  or                    

                                                                                

7   annuity, pension, or retirement benefits.  Amounts received for             

                                                                                

8   personal injuries, sickness, or disability are excluded from                

                                                                                

9   taxable income  only  to the extent  provided  those amounts are            

                                                                                

10  excluded by the  federal  internal revenue code.                            

                                                                                

11      (c) Welfare relief, unemployment benefits including                         

                                                                                


                                                                                

1   supplemental unemployment benefits,  and workmen's  or worker's             

                                                                                

2   compensation or similar payments.  from whatever source derived.            

                                                                                

3       (d) Amounts received by charitable, religious, educational,                 

                                                                                

4   and  or other similar nonprofit organizations  which  that are             

                                                                                

5   exempt from taxation under the  federal  internal revenue code.             

                                                                                

6       (e) Amounts received by supplemental unemployment benefit                   

                                                                                

7   trusts or pension, profit sharing,  and  or stock bonus trusts              

                                                                                

8   qualified and exempt under the  federal  internal revenue code.             

                                                                                

9       (f) Interest from obligations of the United States  , the                   

                                                                                

10  states or subordinate units of government of the states and  or a           

                                                                                

11  state or subdivision of a state or gains or losses on the  sales            

                                                                                

12  sale of obligations of the United States.                                   

                                                                                

13      (g) Net profits of financial institutions and insurance                     

                                                                                

14  companies.                                                                  

                                                                                

15      (h) Amounts paid to an employee as reimbursement for expenses               

                                                                                

16  necessarily and actually incurred by him or her in the actual               

                                                                                

17  performance of his or her services and deductible  as such  by              

                                                                                

18  the  his or her employer.                                                  

                                                                                

19      (i) Compensation received for service in the armed forces of                

                                                                                

20  the United States.                                                          

                                                                                

21      (2) In addition to the exclusions provided in subsection (1),               

                                                                                

22  a city may, by amending this ordinance, provide for the exclusion           

                                                                                

23  from the tax imposed under this ordinance compensation received             

                                                                                

24  by a taxpayer while the taxpayer is on active military duty in              

                                                                                

25  the armed forces of the United States in an area designated as a            

                                                                                

26  combat zone by the president of the United States.