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California expands its professional exemption. Effective Sept. 9, 2020, this exemption is expanded to include employees who provide instruction for a course or laboratory at colleges and universities in CA. To qualify, an individual must satisfy the duties test and salaries test. Employees must earn the monthly equivalent to no less than twice the state minimum wage in which the employee is employed for at least 40 hours per week, or a minimum salary in 2020 of $117 per classroom hour. In 2021, this hourly rate rises to $126 and in 2022 to $135. Beginning in 2023 the rate will be adjusted based on the state minimum wage. Contact your Linkenheimer CPA with questions.

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The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) is hoping to increase the number of Californians who receive the CA earned income tax credit. The FTB is required to analyze and develop a plan to increase the number of claims of the CA earned income tax credit, and the federal earned income tax credit. This includes the alternative filing systems. Currently, eligible claimants must file a CA personal income tax return, if they wish to claim the CA earned income tax credit. Also included in the future plan is the requirement to report to the CA legislature on or before Jan. 1, 2022, on its analysis and plan.