{"id":375641,"date":"2022-09-09T06:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=375641"},"modified":"2022-09-09T06:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:06:31","slug":"bill-filed-to-allow-nmti-to-benefit-from-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bill-filed-to-allow-nmti-to-benefit-from-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill filed to allow NMTI to benefit from ETC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Justo S. Quitugua (R-Saipan) has introduced a bill that will include the Northern Marianas Technical Institute as a qualified educational institution to benefit from the education tax credit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua stated in the bill that NMTI, as a private entity, is included in a statute as a qualified educational institution and was able to benefit from the education tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua, however, said Public Law 20-92 established the NMTI, as a government entity, requires the need to specifically include the NMTI to qualify and benefit from the education tax credit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The senator\u2019s Senate Bill 22-78 will amend Title 4, Division 1, Chapter 2, Section 1205 of the Commonwealth Code to include NMTI as an educational institution to benefit from the education tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Commonwealth Code, qualified educational institution refers to the Public School System, Northern Marianas College, an educational institution located in the CNMI which has been issued a letter of determination granting tax-except status, Commonwealth Museum of History and Culture, Northern Mariana Islands Council for the Humanities, Joeten-Kiyu Public Library, Northern Marianas Trade Institute, and Northern Marianas Sports Association.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Justo S. Quitugua (R-Saipan) has introduced a bill that will include the Northern Marianas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":372964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7494,479],"class_list":["post-375641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-etc","tag-nmti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}