Bill > A4900

Introduced Session

This bill provides gross income tax deductions for certain education loan payments made by taxpayers with New Jersey taxable income below certain specified thresholds. The deductions would be available to certain taxpayers that are making payments on qualified education loans incurred for their own education and for certain taxpayers that are making payments on qualified education loans incurred on behalf of a dependent of the taxpayer. The bill provides that the terms "qualified education loan" and "dependent," except as otherwise required by the bill, have the meaning given those terms in identified sections of the Internal Revenue Code. Specifically, a taxpayer with New Jersey taxable income of less than $75,000 for the taxable year may deduct from gross income amounts paid as principal and interest on a qualified education loan, provided that the taxpayer was the student on whose behalf the loan was incurred. For taxpayers whose New Jersey taxable income is at least $75,000, but not more than $150,000, for a taxable year, the deduction would be in an amount equal to the interest paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan, provided that the taxpayer was the student on whose behalf the loan was incurred. The bill also provides gross income tax deductions for certain taxpayers who make student loan payments on behalf of a dependent, provided that the dependent qualifies as a dependent for the taxable year in which the deduction is taken. Taxpayers with New Jersey taxable income of less than $100,000 for a taxable year, could deduct an amount equal to the interest and principal paid by the taxpayer on a qualified education loan incurred on behalf of a dependent of the taxpayer. Taxpayers with New Jersey taxable income of at least $100,000, but not more than $175,000, for a taxable year, could deduct from gross income an amount equal to the interest paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year on a qualified education loan incurred for the education of a dependent. The bill would apply to taxable years beginning on or after the January 1 next following enactment.

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Roy Freiman (D)*,  Gordon Johnson (D)*,  Eric Houghtaling (D),  Raj Mukherji (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 01/17/2019)