From: Liu Yuhe <liu@ATMOS.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      IFCSS should lobby for H.R. 4418,
              tax exemption for graduate student stipends
Reply-To: Liu Yuhe <liu@ATMOS.UMD.EDU>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:06:22 GMT
Comments: To: china-nt@uga.cc.uga.edu, ifcss@cscwam.umd.edu, ningli@bme.unc.edu

Dear Fellows:

     I just got a message about US House Bill 4418. This bill would
change the tax status of graduate students stipends.

     I think IFCSS should lobby for this bill as well as the protection
bill. The bill H.R. 4418 will great benefit those Chinese students who do
not cover the protection bill. Most of those students are now on campus
and can enjoy the benefits of this bill.

     Please contribute your supprot to this bill.

     Thank you for your attention.


Yuhe Liu
IFCSS Council Member
U. of Maryland


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  From:  Yuhe Liu
  Department of Meteorology                Telephone: (301) 405-8045 (O)
  University of Maryland                              (301) 779-0350 (H)
  College Park, MD 20742                   Email:     liu@atmos.umd.edu
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> From Alan@clim1.umd.edu
> From INFO-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Tue Sep  1 10:44:49 1992
> From: Jay Elvove <jay@INFO.UMD.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: House Bill 4418 re: tax status of graduate student stipends
> To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-L <INFO-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU>
> Status: R

This is not the kind of message one normally expects on this list, but
after seeing it on the net, I felt it should have wide circulation.  If
you disagree, please send your comments to me personally, not to the
list.

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Bill H.R. 4418, now being considered by the U. S. House of
Representatives, would return the graduate student fellowship stipends
to tax-exempt status.  That is, stipends given in the form of a
scholarship or program for teacher education, as opposed to stipends
which are given as a return for service, which would still be
considered taxable income.  Prior to the Reagan-Bush era, graduate
student fellowship stipends were not taxed, and Tom Lewis (R- Florida)
has proposed a bill which not only would make these stipends
tax-exempt, but would also return all taxes paid since 1986 on these
stipends.  The Bill is H.R. 4418 and is currently under consideration.

The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS)
supports this bill as a first step in completely returning all
graduate education stipends to tax-exempt status.  You can reach their
central office for NAGPS at (708) 256-1562 and request a recruitment
packet, filled with various information on what else NAGPS does and
can help with at your school. The regional Coordinator in the MidWest
is Monica White, at Western Michigan University.

To voice your opinion on the bill, call or write your local
congressperson.

If you do not know who your Representative is, call (800) 347-1997
(THE FEDERAL INFORMATION CENTER) and ask.

Please feel free to redistribute this message, and please direct
all further discussion of this issue to the soc.college.grad news
group.  Thank you.
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