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Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, definition of eligible housing areas.

It became law on Mar 23, 2020.

VA HB 590 · House Bill · 2020

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+21
Latest action
Mar 23, 2020

What it does

Tax credit for participating landlords; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for the housing choice voucher tax credit to include Virginia census tracts in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area in which less than 10 percent of the population lives below the poverty level. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to such areas within the Richmond and Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Areas.The bill establishes a 2025 sunset date on the credit. The bill incorporates HB 1014 and is identical to SB 200.

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This bill passed and is now law.

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    Mar 23, 2020

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Law in Virginia. Agencies now write the rules that carry it out, and courts can stay or strike it.

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