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PUBLIC LAW 93-407-SEPT. 3, 1974
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interest, dividends, securities, or transactions of any trade or business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever, including but not limited to alimony, and separate maintenance payments (including amounts received under separate maintenance agreements), strike benefits, cash public assistance and relief (not including relief or credit granted under this section), sick pay, workmen's compensation, proceeds of life insurance policies, the gross amount of any pension or annuity (including railroad retirement benefits, veterans' disability pensions, or payment received under the Federal Social Security Act), State or District of '^^ ^^*^ ^^°Columbia unemployment compensation laws, and nontaxable interest received from the United States, a State or any agency or instrumentality thereof. The word 'income' does not include gifts from nongovernmental sources, food stamps, or food or other relief in kind supplied by a governmental agency. " (B) I n determining household gross income the exclusions from gross income as provided by subsection (b) of section 2 of title III of this article shall not apply. DC. code 47"(2) The term 'household income' shall have the same meaning as ^5S7a. the words 'adjusted gross income' are defined in subsection (c) of section 2 of title III of this article. For purposes of determining adjusted gross income within the meaning of this section, gross income shall mean household income as defined in this section. "(3) The term 'home' means the claimant's dwelling house, whether owned or rented by the claimant, and so much of the land surrounding it as is reasonably necessary for use of the dwelling as a home, and may include a multiunit building or a multipurpose building and a part of the land upon which it is located. " (4) The term 'claimant' means a person who has filed a claim under this section, was an owner of record of a home in the District, or a lessee, tenant at will or tenant at sufferance paying rent on a home in t\ie District, during the entire calendar year preceding the year in which he files a claim for relief under this section. Only one claimant per home and per household per year shall be entitled to relief under this section. "(5)(A) The term 'rent constituting property taxes accrued' means 15 per centum of the rent actuallv paid by a claimant in cash or its equivalent in the calendar year 1975 or any subsequent calendar year solely for the right to occupy his District home in such calendar year, and which rent constitutes the basis in the succeeding calendar year for the claim for relief made by the claimant under this section, exclusive of amounts which are paid as rent or other consideration for the providing by the landlord of furniture or furnishings of any kind, and exclusive of amounts included in the rent for utilities. Whenever the amount of rent includes charges for the providing by the landlord of furniture or furnishings or charges for utilities, jind the charges therefor are not separately stated, then there shall be deducted from the rent as the charge for such furniture or furnishings 20 per centum of the rent, and for utilities 10 per centum of the rent, and the balance shall be deemed to be the amount paid by the claimant solely for the right to occupy his District home for the purposes of the credit allowed under this section. "(c) In the event that any installment of rent for a calendar year for which a claim is filed is paid prior to the beginning of or subsequent to the end of such calendar year, it shall be included as rent for the year for which the claim was made and for no other year,
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