File Code: Taxes - Income
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee (By Request - Departmental -
Comptroller) and Senator Jones (Chair, Joint Committee on the Management of
Public Funds)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Income Tax - Mandatory Income Tax Return Preparer Requirements
 
Requiring electronic filing of individual income tax returns prepared
by income tax return preparers who prepare more than a specified
volume of original individual income tax returns for compensation;
defining "income tax return preparer" and "qualified return";
exempting specified income tax returns; authorizing the Comptroller to
grant waivers based on specified circumstances; providing penalties
for a violation of the Act; and applying the Act to taxable years
beginning after December 31, 2008.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 10/22
 - Pre-filed
 - 1/14
 - First Reading Budget and Taxation
 -      Hearing 1/28 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/16
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
 - 3/17
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/19
 - Third Reading Passed (36-8)
 - 4/3
 - Returned Passed
 
House Action
- 3/20
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 3/25
 - Hearing 4/2 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/3
 - Favorable Report by Ways and Means
 - 3/30
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 3/31
 - Third Reading Passed (135-0)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/19
 - Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative)
 
Sponsored by:
- Budget and Taxation Committee, Chair
 - Comptroller
 - Senator Verna L. Jones, District 44
 - Management of Public Funds, Joint Committee on the
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Comptroller
 - Electronic Government
 - Income Tax
 - Penalties
 - Tax Preparers
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Tax - General
 - (
 10-824 ,
 13-717 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Senate
- Number: 149339/01     Offered on: March 17, 2009      at:
11:20 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- March 19, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (36-8)
 
House 
- March 31, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (135-0)