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On May 30, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2417, an extensive state tax reform bill to improve the tax structure in Iowa. The 2018 Iowa Tax Reform Bill recognizes that the method of delivering photography and retouching services has changed and that the service may or may not result in a physical product. This law modernizes the language of the code so that photography and retouching services are taxed consistently regardless of whether the final product is physical or electronic. This will simplify the tax on goods and services sold by photography business and equalize the taxability of physical and electronic products.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2417, an extensive state tax reform bill to improve the tax structure in Iowa. The 2018 Iowa Tax Reform Bill includes an updated federal conformity provision for tax year 2018, which allows Iowa taxpayers options if they itemize deductions at the federal level.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2417, an extensive state tax reform bill to improve the tax structure in Iowa. The 2018 Iowa Tax Reform Bill includes an updated federal conformity provision for tax year 2018, which allows the same Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) calculation at the state level that is allowed at the federal level.
Parts of the federal EITC were previously set to expire after tax year 2017. The 2018 Iowa Tax Reform Bill allows taxpayers who are eligible for the EITC at the federal level will continue to be eligible for an EITC equal to 15% of the federal credit amount on their Iowa individual income tax return for tax year 2018 and beyond.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2417, an extensive state tax reform bill to improve the tax structure in Iowa. The 2018 Iowa Tax Reform Bill includes an updated federal conformity provision beginning with tax year 2018, which allows the same deduction for a charitable distribution from an individual retirement account by certain taxpayers at the state level that is allowed at the federal level.