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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2406 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2406

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently allow a tax 
deduction at the time an investment in qualified property is made, and 
                          for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2023

Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Buchanan, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, 
Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Ferguson, Mrs. 
    Steel, Mr. Estes, Mr. Kustoff, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. Hern, Mr. 
  Feenstra, and Mr. LaHood) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently allow a tax 
deduction at the time an investment in qualified property is made, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Accelerate Long-term Investment 
Growth Now Act'' or the ``ALIGN Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT FULL EXPENSING FOR QUALIFIED PROPERTY.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (6) of section 168(k) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:
            ``(6) Applicable percentage.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the term `applicable percentage' means, in the case 
        of property placed in service (or, in the case of a specified 
        plant described in paragraph (5), a plant which is planted or 
        grafted) after September 27, 2017, 100 percent.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 
        amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) in clause (i)(V), by inserting 
                                ``and'' at the end;
                                    (II) in clause (ii), by striking 
                                ``clause (ii) of subparagraph (E), 
                                and'' and inserting ``clause (i) of 
                                subparagraph (E).''; and
                                    (III) by striking clause (iii);
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B)--
                                    (I) in clause (i)--
                                            (aa) by striking subclauses 
                                        (II) and (III); and
                                            (bb) by redesignating 
                                        subclauses (IV) through (VI) as 
                                        subclauses (II) through (IV), 
                                        respectively;
                                    (II) by striking clause (ii); and
                                    (III) by redesignating clauses 
                                (iii) and (iv) as clauses (ii) and 
                                (iii), respectively;
                            (iii) in subparagraph (C)--
                                    (I) in clause (i), by striking 
                                ``and subclauses (II) and (III) of 
                                subparagraph (B)(i)''; and
                                    (II) in clause (ii), by striking 
                                ``subparagraph (B)(iii)'' and inserting 
                                ``subparagraph (B)(ii)''; and
                            (iv) in subparagraph (E)--
                                    (I) by striking clause (i); and
                                    (II) by redesignating clauses (ii) 
                                and (iii) as clauses (i) and (ii), 
                                respectively; and
                    (B) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ``planted 
                before January 1, 2027, or is grafted before such date 
                to a plant that has already been planted,'' and 
                inserting ``planted or grafted''.
            (2) Section 460(c)(6)(B) of such Code is amended by 
        striking ``which'' and all that follows through the period and 
        inserting ``which has a recovery period of 7 years or less.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in section 13201 of Public Law 115-97.
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