Betsy Johnson voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Establishes Tax Sheltered Home Buyer Savings Accounts and Increases Document-Recording Fees
Signed by Governor Kate Brown
Title: Establishes Tax Sheltered Home Buyer Savings Accounts and Increases Document-Recording Fees
Establishes tax-sheltered savings accounts for first-time home buyers and increases document-recording fees from $20 to $60.
Authorizes an individual to create a first-time home buyer savings account with a financial institution to be used to pay or reimburse the accountholder’s eligible costs related to the purchase of a single-family residence by entering into a first-time home buyer savings account agreement with the financial institution (Sec. 3).
Authorizes an individual to jointly own a first-time home buyer savings account with another person if the joint account holders are both first-time home buyers and file a joint income tax return (Sec. 3).
Prohibits an individual to be the account holder for more than 1 first-time home buyer savings account (Sec. 3).
Amends the amount the county clerk is authorized to charge for recording or filing fees from $20 to $60 (Sec. 10).
Requires there to be subtracted from federal taxable income the amount of funds contributed by an account holder to the account holder’s first-time home buyer savings account during the tax year, not to exceed $5,000 for an account holder who files an additional income tax return or $10,000 for joint holders who file a joint income tax return (Sec 4).
Title: Establishes Tax Sheltered Home Buyer Savings Accounts and Increases Document-Recording Fees
Title: Establishes Tax Sheltered Home Buyer Savings Accounts and Increases Document-Recording Fees