Kansas Statutes 79-32,300. Credit against income, privilege or premium tax liability for employment of eligible individuals by targeted employment businesses; determination of credit amount; maximum annual amount of all credits
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 79-32,300
- Community service provider: means an association or organization licensed by the Kansas department for aging and disability services whose purpose is to provide support and services, relating to the ability to live and to work in the community, to persons who, without such support and services, would be unable or would have significant difficulty maintaining employment or living in the community. See Kansas Statutes 79-32,299
- Compensation: means wages, salaries, commissions and any other form of remuneration paid to employees for personal services. See Kansas Statutes 79-3271
- Earned income: means compensation paid to a Kansas employee for competitive integrated employment that is equal or greater than the minimum wage and is performed in a competitive integrated setting. See Kansas Statutes 79-32,299
- Eligible individual: means an individual, including a high school student, who is a Kansas resident, is employed by an employer in a competitive integrated setting, has a developmental disability that has been documented as required by the secretary for aging and disability services and who has agreed to provide the secretary for aging and disability services, or the secretary's designee, information required by the secretary pursuant to the Kansas targeted employment act, or to permit the secretary of revenue to provide such information to the secretary for aging and disability services. See Kansas Statutes 79-32,299
- State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States, and any foreign country or political subdivision thereof. See Kansas Statutes 79-3271
- Targeted employment business: means those employers employing eligible individuals in competitive integrated employment in a competitive integrated setting and who are authorized to do business in Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 79-32,299
For tax years 2022 through 2027, a credit shall be allowed against the income, privilege or premium tax liability imposed upon a taxpayer qualifying as a targeted employment business or a taxpayer outsourcing work to a targeted employment business pursuant to the Kansas income tax act, the privilege tax imposed upon any national banking association, state bank, trust company or savings and loan association pursuant to article 11 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, or the premiums tax and privilege fees imposed upon an insurance company pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 40-252, and amendments thereto, for every hour that an eligible individual is employed in a calendar year in a targeted employment business and receives earned income as compensation. The credit shall only apply to wages for hours worked and not for any compensation for leave paid to the eligible individual. The credit shall be 50% of the wages paid to the eligible individual on an hourly basis, up to a maximum credit of $7.50 per hour. For the purpose of calculating the tax credit, the wage rate used shall not be more than a reasonable or usual and customary market wage rate for a similar job. The credit shall not be refundable, shall not be carried forward and shall only be used once each taxable year against tax liability imposed by only one of the income, privilege or premium taxes. For any employed eligible individual who receives support or services from a community service provider, such eligible individual may choose to have support or services provided as needed at the individual’s worksite to help the individual maintain employment. The maximum amount of all tax credits allowed in each tax year under the Kansas targeted employment act shall be $5,000,000.