HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 827        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2782

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to helping seniors..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Subsection (k) of section 6 of chapter 62 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “commissioner.”, in line 319, the following:-

The real estate tax payment to be considered for purposes of calculating this credit shall also include 25 percent of the owner’s home heating oil, natural gas, or propane, actually paid in the taxable year for which the credit is sought.

SECTION 2.  Subsection (k) of said section 6 of said chapter 62 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word “thereof.”, in line 323, the following sentence:-

The rent constituting real estate tax payment to be considered for purposes of calculating this credit shall also include 25 percent of the owner’s home heating oil, natural gas, or propane, actually paid in the taxable year for which the credit is sought.