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Florida To Decouple From Some Pandemic Federal Tax Breaks
By Daniel Tay
· 2021-06-30 14:01:16 -0400
Florida will decouple from the increased business meal deduction and increased business interest expense limit from federal tax relief provided in response to the coronavirus pandemic, under a bill signed by the governor.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed H.B. 7059 on Tuesday. Under the bill, the state will generally conform to the federal tax code but decouple from the
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increase in the business meal deduction from 50% of expenses to 100%. Florida will also decouple from the
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increased limit on business interest expense deductions and its deduction for qualified improvement property under the bill.
The state will also decouple from the CARES Act's extensions of special expensing rules for film, television or live theater productions.
H.B. 7059 was approved by the state House of Representatives
and the Senate in April.
--Editing by Roy LeBlanc.
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