Budget Amendment ID: FY2019-S4-37-R1

Redraft OTH 37

Low income tax clinics

Messrs. Lewis and O'Connor and Ms. L'Italien moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after item 1201-0100 the following item:- 1201-0122   For grants to qualified low-income taxpayer clinics established in section 13 of chapter 14 of the General Laws; provided, that the department shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 1, 2018 on: (i) the number of grant applications; (ii) the number of rejected applications; (iii) the reasons for those rejections; (iv) the estimated number of taxpayers served by each approved grant; (v) the geographic location of the approved grant recipient clinic; and (vi) the average size of approved grants............................................................................. $150,000