I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8584 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the indexing 
of certain assets for purposes of determining gain or loss of eligible 
individuals. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 13, 2020 
Mr. EMMER 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 of eligible individuals. 
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 ‘‘Retirement Inflation 
Protection Act of 2020’’. 
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SEC. 2. INDEXING OF CERTAIN ASSETS FOR PURPOSES OF 
DETERMINING GAIN OR LOSS OF ELIGIBLE 
INDIVIDUALS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part II of subchapter O of chap-
ter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended 
by inserting after section 1017 the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1018. INDEXING OF CERTAIN ASSETS FOR PURPOSES 
OF DETERMINING GAIN OR LOSS OF ELIGI-
BLE INDIVIDUALS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) INDEXED
BASIS
SUBSTITUTED
FOR
AD-
JUSTED BASIS.—Solely for purposes of determining 
gain or loss on the sale or other disposition by an 
eligible individual of an indexed asset which has 
been held by such individual for more than 3 years, 
the indexed 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 
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documentation of the original purchase price paid or 
incurred by the taxpayer to acquire such asset. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘eligible individual’ means, with respect 
to any indexed asset, any individual if such individual has 
attained age 591⁄2 as of the date of the sale or other dis-
position of such asset. 
‘‘(c) INDEXED ASSET.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘indexed asset’ means— 
‘‘(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, 
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‘‘(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. 
‘‘(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. 
‘‘(d) INDEXED BASIS.—For purposes of this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—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— 
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Consumers for the month which precedes such 
calendar month by 4 months. 
‘‘(B) DETERMINATION
FOR
CALENDAR 
MONTH.—The C-CPI-U for any calendar month 
is the average of the C-CPI-U as of the close 
of the 12-month period ending with the month 
which precedes such calendar month by 4 
months. 
‘‘(e) 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-
section (d)(2) for purposes of the preceding 
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sentence, the date on which the property is sold 
short shall be treated as the date of acquisition 
and the closing date for the sale shall be treat-
ed as the date of disposition. 
‘‘(B) SHORT SALE PERIOD.—For purposes 
of subparagraph (A), the short sale period be-
gins on the day that the property is sold and 
ends on the closing date for the sale. 
‘‘(f) DISPOSITIONS BETWEEN RELATED PERSONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—This section shall not apply 
to any sale or other disposition of property between 
related persons except to the extent that the basis 
of such property in the hands of the transferee is a 
substituted basis. 
‘‘(2) RELATED PERSONS DEFINED.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘related persons’ 
means— 
‘‘(A) persons bearing a relationship set 
forth in section 267(b), and 
‘‘(B) persons treated as single employer 
under subsection (b) or (c) of section 414. 
‘‘(g) TRANSFERS TO INCREASE INDEXING ADJUST-
MENT.—If any person transfers cash, debt, or any other 
property to another person and the principal purpose of 
such transfer is to secure or increase an adjustment under 
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subsection (a), the Secretary may disallow part or all of 
such adjustment or increase. 
‘‘(h) SPECIAL RULES.—For purposes of this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) TREATMENT OF IMPROVEMENTS, ETC.—If 
there is an addition to the adjusted basis of any tan-
gible property or of any stock in a corporation dur-
ing the taxable year by reason of an improvement to 
such property or a contribution to capital of such 
corporation— 
‘‘(A) such addition shall never be taken 
into account under subsection (d)(1)(A) if the 
aggregate amount thereof during the taxable 
year with respect to such property or stock is 
less than $1,000, and 
‘‘(B) such addition shall be treated as a 
separate asset acquired at the close of such tax-
able year if the aggregate amount thereof dur-
ing the taxable year with respect to such prop-
erty or stock is $1,000 or more. 
A rule similar to the rule of the preceding sentence 
shall apply to any other portion of an asset to the 
extent that separate treatment of such portion is ap-
propriate to carry out the purposes of this section. 
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‘‘(2) ASSETS WHICH ARE NOT INDEXED ASSETS 
THROUGHOUT HOLDING PERIOD.—The applicable in-
flation adjustment shall be appropriately reduced for 
periods during which the asset was not an indexed 
asset. 
‘‘(3) TREATMENT
OF
CERTAIN
DISTRIBU-
TIONS.—A distribution with respect to stock in a 
corporation which is not a dividend shall be treated 
as a disposition. 
‘‘(4) SECTION
CANNOT
INCREASE
ORDINARY 
LOSS.—To the extent that (but for this paragraph) 
this section would create or increase a net ordinary 
loss to which section 1231(a)(2) applies or an ordi-
nary loss to which any other provision of this title 
applies, such provision shall not apply. The taxpayer 
shall be treated as having a long-term capital loss in 
an amount equal to the amount of the ordinary loss 
to which the preceding sentence applies. 
‘‘(5) ACQUISITION
DATE
WHERE
THERE
HAS 
BEEN
PRIOR
APPLICATION
OF
SUBSECTION (a)(1) 
WITH RESPECT TO THE TAXPAYER.—If there has 
been a prior application of subsection (a)(1) to an 
asset while such asset was held by the taxpayer, the 
date of acquisition of such asset by the taxpayer 
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shall be treated as not earlier than the date of the 
most recent such prior application. 
‘‘(i) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall prescribe 
such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to 
carry out the purposes of this section.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for part II of subchapter O of chapter 1 of such Code 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
1017 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 1018. Indexing of certain assets for purposes of determining gain or loss 
of eligible individuals.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to sales or other dispositions after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, in taxable years 
ending after such date. 
Æ 
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