{"id":31923,"date":"2022-03-03T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=31923"},"modified":"2022-03-03T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:18:42","slug":"income-tax-deduction-for-employers-of-felons-clears-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=31923","title":{"rendered":"Income tax deduction for employers of felons clears first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses that hire felons would receive a state income tax deduction under a bill advanced from general file March 3.<figure id=\"attachment_20166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20166\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20166\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20166\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWayne_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479303554&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;82&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senwayne_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Justin Wayne&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Justin Wayne&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWayne_inline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWayne_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Justin Wayne\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWayne_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWayne_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Justin Wayne<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Under LB917, introduced by Omaha Sen. Justin Wayne, a company\u2019s federal adjusted gross income or federal taxable income would be reduced by 65 percent of the wages paid to an individual who has been convicted of a felony. <\/p>\n<p>The deduction would apply to wages paid during the first 12 months of the individual\u2019s employment, and the total deduction per employee could not exceed $20,000. <\/p>\n<p>Wayne said the proposal would encourage employers to hire individuals who recently were incarcerated, which would help reduce Nebraska\u2019s recidivism rate. <\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Revenue estimates that LB917 would reduce state general fund revenue by $2.6 million in fiscal year 2023-24 and $2.6 million in FY2024-25. <\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 38-1 to advance the bill to select file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses that hire felons would receive a state income tax deduction under a bill advanced from general file March 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[191],"class_list":["post-31923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-justin-wayne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LB917Wayne3-3-22a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31925,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923\/revisions\/31925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}