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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §5122, sub-§2, ¶K, as amended by PL 1999, c. 521, Pt.
C, §5 and affected by §9, is further amended to read:

 
K. For income tax years beginning on or after January 1,
1997, all items of income, gain, interest, dividends,
royalties and other income of a financial institution
subject to the tax imposed by section 5206, to the extent
that those items are passed through to the taxpayer for
federal income tax purposes, including, if the financial
institution is an S corporation, the taxpayer's pro rata
share and, if the financial institution is a partnership or
limited liability company, the taxpayer's distributive
share. A subtraction may not be made under this paragraph
for:

 
(1) Income of the taxpayer earned on interest-bearing
or similar accounts of the taxpayer at a financial
institution as a customer of that financial
institution;

 
(2) Any dividends or other distributions with respect
to a taxpayer's ownership interest in a financial
institution; and

 
(3) Any gain recognized on the disposition by the
taxpayer of an ownership interest in a financial
institution; and

 
Sec. 2. 36 MRSA §5122, sub-§2, ¶L, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 521, Pt.
C, §6 and affected by §9, is amended to read:

 
L. For income tax years beginning on or after January 1,
2000, an amount equal to the total premiums spent for
qualified long-term care insurance contracts as defined in
the Code, Section 7702B(b), as long as the amount subtracted
is reduced by the long-term care premiums claimed as an
itemized deduction pursuant to Section 5125.; and

 
Sec. 3. 36 MRSA §5122, sub-§2, ¶M is enacted to read:

 
M.__For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2001, up
to and including $6,000 of state, federal and military
retirement pension benefits for each recipient of those
benefits to the extent the benefits are included in federal
taxable income after adjustment under paragraph E.


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