96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4784


 
Introduced 1/12/2010, by Rep. Sandy Cole
 
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    Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides a credit for taxpayers who, during the taxable year, install, on a building or property that is owned by the taxpayer and that is located in the State, a geothermal, solar, wind, or fuel cell energy device and sets the amount of the credit at  the lesser of (i) $1,500 or (ii)  20% of the actual cost of the acquisition and installation of the device. Provides that the credit may not be carried forward or back and may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning revenue.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended  by adding 
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Section 219 as follows:
 
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    (35 ILCS 5/219 new)
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    Sec. 219. Credit for alternate energy devices.
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    (a) For taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2010 
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through taxable years ending on or before December 30, 2015, 
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each taxpayer who, during the taxable year, installs, on a 
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building or property that is owned by the taxpayer and that is 
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located in the State, a geothermal, solar, wind, or fuel cell 
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energy device is entitled to a credit against the tax imposed 
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under subsection (a) and (b) of Section 201 in an amount equal 
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to the lesser of (i) $1,500 or (ii)  20% of the actual cost of 
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the acquisition and installation of the device.
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    (b) For the purposes of this Section:
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    "Geothermal energy device" means a system or mechanism or 
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series of mechanisms designed to provide heating or cooling or 
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to produce electrical or mechanical power, or any combination 
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of these, by a method that extracts or converts the energy 
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naturally occurring  beneath the earth's surface in rock 
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structures, water, or steam.
 


 






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    "Solar or wind energy device" means a system or mechanism 
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or series of mechanisms designed to provide heating or cooling 
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or to produce electrical or mechanical power, or any 
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combination of these, or to store any of these by a method that 
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converts the natural energy of the sun or the wind.
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    "Fuel cell energy device" means a system or mechanism or 
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series of mechanisms designed to provide heating or cooling or 
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to produce electrical or mechanical power, or any combination 
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of these, that continuously changes the chemical energy of a 
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fuel and an oxidant directly into electrical energy.
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    (c) If a geothermal, solar, wind, or fuel cell energy 
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device is part of a system that uses other means of energy, 
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then only that portion of the total system that is directly 
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attributable to the cost of the geothermal, solar, wind, or 
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fuel cell energy device may be included in determining the 
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amount of the credit. The costs of installation may not include 
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the costs of redesigning, remodeling, or otherwise altering the 
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structure of a building in which a geothermal, solar, wind, or 
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fuel cell energy device is installed.
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    (d) If the taxpayer is a partnership or Subchapter S

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corporation,  the  credit  is  allowed  to  the  partners  or

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shareholders in accordance with the determination  of  income
and  
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distributive  share of income under Sections 702 and 704
and  
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Subchapter  S  of  the  Internal   Revenue   Code.
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    (e) The credit may not be carried forward  or  back.   In  no

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event shall a credit under this Section reduce the taxpayer's

 


 






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liability to less than zero.
 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.