2003 House Bill 5163

Introduced in the House

Oct. 14, 2003

Introduced by Rep. Jacob Hoogendyk (R-61)

To eliminate a provision in current law which postpones an annual one-tenth percent Single Business Tax (SBT) cut if the balance in the Budget Stabilization Fund (BSF, or “rainy day fund”) falls below $250 million. Under this law, the SBT was originally supposed to be phased out with 23 annual one-tenth percent tax cuts. However, when the legislature passed House Bill 5883 in 2002 reducing the balance in the BSF to less than $250 million and thereby postponing further SBT cuts, they also passed Senate Bill 1322, which is supposed to end the SBT after the year 2009.

Referred to the Committee on Tax Policy