I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1261 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the indexing 
of certain assets for purposes of determining gain or loss. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 1, 2007 
Mr. PENCE (for himself and Mr. CANTOR) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide 
for the indexing of certain assets for purposes of deter-
mining gain or loss. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Capital Gains Inflation 
Relief Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. INDEXING OF CERTAIN ASSETS FOR PURPOSES OF 
DETERMINING GAIN OR LOSS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part II of subchapter O of chap-
ter 1 (relating to basis rules of general application) is 
amended by redesignating section 1023 as section 1024 
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and by inserting after section 1022 the following new sec-
tion: 
‘‘SEC. 1023. INDEXING OF CERTAIN ASSETS FOR PURPOSES 
OF DETERMINING GAIN OR LOSS. 
‘‘(a) GENERAL RULE.— 
‘‘(1) INDEXED
BASIS
SUBSTITUTED
FOR
AD-
JUSTED BASIS.—Solely for purposes of determining 
gain or loss on the sale or other disposition by a tax-
payer (other than a corporation) of an indexed asset 
which has been held for more than 3 years, the in-
dexed basis of the asset shall be substituted for its 
adjusted basis. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION
FOR
DEPRECIATION, ETC.— 
The deductions for depreciation, depletion, and am-
ortization shall be determined without regard to the 
application of paragraph (1) to the taxpayer or any 
other person. 
‘‘(3) WRITTEN
DOCUMENTATION
REQUIRE-
MENT.—Paragraph (1) shall apply only with respect 
to indexed assets for which the taxpayer has written 
documentation of the original purchase price paid or 
incurred by the taxpayer to acquire such asset. 
‘‘(b) INDEXED ASSET.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘indexed asset’ means— 
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‘‘(A) common stock in a C corporation 
(other than a foreign corporation), or 
‘‘(B) tangible property, 
which is a capital asset or property used in the trade 
or business (as defined in section 1231(b)). 
‘‘(2) STOCK
IN
CERTAIN
FOREIGN
CORPORA-
TIONS INCLUDED.—For purposes of this section— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘indexed 
asset’ includes common stock in a foreign cor-
poration which is regularly traded on an estab-
lished securities market. 
‘‘(B) 
EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph 
(A) 
shall not apply to— 
‘‘(i) stock of a foreign investment 
company, 
‘‘(ii) stock in a passive foreign invest-
ment company (as defined in section 
1296), 
‘‘(iii) stock in a foreign corporation 
held by a United States person who meets 
the requirements of section 1248(a)(2), 
and 
‘‘(iv) stock in a foreign personal hold-
ing company. 
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‘‘(C) TREATMENT OF AMERICAN DEPOSI-
TORY RECEIPTS.—An American depository re-
ceipt for common stock in a foreign corporation 
shall be treated as common stock in such cor-
poration. 
‘‘(c) INDEXED BASIS.—For purposes of this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) GENERAL RULE.—The indexed basis for 
any asset is— 
‘‘(A) the adjusted basis of the asset, in-
creased by 
‘‘(B) the applicable inflation adjustment. 
‘‘(2) APPLICABLE INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.— 
The applicable inflation adjustment for any asset is 
an amount equal to— 
‘‘(A) the adjusted basis of the asset, multi-
plied by 
‘‘(B) the percentage (if any) by which— 
‘‘(i) 
the 
gross 
domestic 
product 
deflator for the last calendar quarter end-
ing before the asset is disposed of, exceeds 
‘‘(ii) the gross domestic product 
deflator for the last calendar quarter end-
ing before the asset was acquired by the 
taxpayer. 
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The percentage under subparagraph (B) shall be 
rounded to the nearest 1⁄10 of 1 percentage point. 
‘‘(3) GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT DEFLATOR.— 
The gross domestic product deflator for any cal-
endar quarter is the implicit price deflator for the 
gross domestic product for such quarter (as shown 
in the last revision thereof released by the Secretary 
of Commerce before the close of the following cal-
endar quarter). 
‘‘(d) SUSPENSION OF HOLDING PERIOD WHERE DI-
MINISHED
RISK
OF
LOSS; TREATMENT
OF
SHORT 
SALES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If the taxpayer (or a re-
lated person) enters into any transaction which sub-
stantially reduces the risk of loss from holding any 
asset, such asset shall not be treated as an indexed 
asset for the period of such reduced risk. 
‘‘(2) SHORT SALES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a short 
sale of an indexed asset with a short sale period 
in excess of 3 years, for purposes of this title, 
the amount realized shall be an amount equal 
to the amount realized (determined without re-
gard to this paragraph) increased by the appli-
cable inflation adjustment. In applying sub-
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