PRINTER'S NO. 3370

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2500 Session of 1988


        INTRODUCED BY CLYMER, TRELLO, VROON, GEIST, ITKIN, DISTLER,
           MERRY, FARMER, SAURMAN, REBER, McHALE, HESS, CIVERA,
           JADLOWIEC, MELIO, NOYE, SCHULER, HECKLER, PITTS, BOWSER,
           JOHNSON, MICHLOVIC, J. L. WRIGHT, McVERRY, MAINE,
           E. Z. TAYLOR, STABACK, ARTY, DIETTERICK, GODSHALL, BLACK,
           CARLSON, HASAY, JAROLIN, CORNELL, ROBBINS, FARGO, BURD,
           RITTER, SEMMEL, PETRARCA, HALUSKA, MORRIS, G. SNYDER AND
           COLAFELLA, MAY 25, 1988

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MAY 25, 1988

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 72 (Taxation and Fiscal Affairs) of the
     2     Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, exempting transfers to
     3     beneficiaries of individual retirement accounts.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 1711 of Title 72 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
     8  § 1711.  Transfers not subject to tax.
     9     * * *
    10     (s)  Individual retirement accounts.--Payments to a spouse
    11  from an individual retirement account (IRA) established by the
    12  decedent under section 408(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of
    13  1954 (68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.) are exempt from the
    14  inheritance tax.
    15     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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