California May Provide 20 Percent Tax Credit for Workers Comp

California Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena, has proposed legislation that would lessen the burden on small businesses.

According to the Pasadena Star-News, the bill, Assembly Bill 11, would establish a 20 percent tax credit to help small businesses pay for workers compensation premiums. Qualifying employers would be those with fewer than 20 employees and with less than $1 million in annual revenue. (WCxKit)

The workers comp credit would be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

The bill is geared to maintain protections for California's labor force, while helping to prevent the forms of cuts and layoffs that have been prevalent since the Great Recession began.

Portantino also noted that the bill would not make any changes to the California’s current workers comp laws. It simply assists small businesses in paying for it. (WCxKit)

A.B. 11 would be funded by allocating $200 million presently available under the seldom used small-business hiring credit to the workers comp credit

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