GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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HOUSE BILL 642

 

 

Short Title:        Lower Corporate Income Tax Rate.

(Public)

Sponsors:

Representatives Conrad, Jeter, Moffitt, and Murry (Primary Sponsors).

For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.

Referred to:

Finance.

April 10, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to lower the corporate income tax rate.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 105-130.3 reads as rewritten:

"§ 105-130.3.  Corporations.

A tax is imposed on the State net income of every C Corporation doing business in this State. An S Corporation is not subject to the tax levied in this section. The tax is a percentagefour and nine-tenths percent (4.9%) of the taxpayer's State net income computed as follows:income.

Income Years Beginning           Tax

In 1997            7.5%

In 1998            7.25%

In 1999            7%

After 1999       6.9%."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 115C-546.1(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Each calendar quarter, the Secretary of Revenue shall remit to the State Treasurer for credit to the Public School Building Capital Fund an amount equal to the applicable fraction provided in the table belowfive forty-ninths (5/49) of the net collections received during the previous quarter by the Department of Revenue under G.S. 105-130.3. All funds deposited in the Public School Building Capital Fund shall be invested as provided in G.S. 147-69.2 and G.S. 147-69.3.

Period                                      Fraction

10/1/97 to 9/30/98                   One-fifteenth (1/15)

10/1/98 to 9/30/99                   Two twenty-ninths (2/29)

10/1/99 to 9/30/00                   One-fourteenth (1/14)

After 9/30/00                            Five sixty-ninths (5/69)"

SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act is effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Section 2 of this act is effective July 1, 2013, and applies to the calendar quarter that ends September 30, 2013. The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.