zli12321/Bills huggingface dataset:
Sensible Estate Tax Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish new estate tax rates of between 41% (for estates with a value in excess of $1,000,000) and 55% (for estates with a value in excess of $10 million), (2) allow a $1 million estate tax exclusion, and (3) provide for an inflation adjustment to such amounts for decedents dying after 2014.

Restores the estate tax credit for any estate, inheritance, legacy, or succession taxes paid to a state (expired after 2004). Repeals the deduction currently allowed for such taxes.

Sets forth estate valuation rules for certain transfers of nonbusiness assets and limits estate tax discounts for certain individuals with minority interests in a business acquired from a decedent.

Requires that the value of the basis in any property acquired from a decedent or by gift be consistent with the basis as determined for estate and gift tax purposes. Requires executors of estates and donors of gifts required to file a gift tax return to disclose to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to recipients of any interest in an estate or a gift, information identifying the value of each interest received.

Expands rules for valuing assets in grantor retained annuity trusts to require that: (1) the right to receive fixed amounts from an annuity last for a term of not less than 10 years and that such fixed amounts not decrease during the first 10 years of the annuity term, and (2) the remainder interest have a value greater than zero when transferred.

Terminates the generation-skipping transfer exemption for certain long-term trusts (perpetual dynasty trusts) 90 years after the establishment of such trusts.

Date: 2014-02-14
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Distillery Excise Tax Reform Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of the excise tax on distilled spirits to $2.70 per proof gallon (currently, $13.50 per proof gallon) on the first 100,000 gallons produced by a distilled spirits producer during the calendar year.

Date: 2014-02-25
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Roth Accounts for Youth Savings Act of 2014 or the RAYS Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to Roth individual retirement accounts (Roth IRAs), to allow dependents of a taxpayer to establish a Roth IRA (Roth Account for Youth). Disregards any amount in a Roth Account for Youth for purposes of determining elibility for benefits or assistance for a means-tested federal benefit program.

Date: 2014-02-28
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period classification for qualified leasehold improvement, restaurant, and retail improvement property, for purposes of the depreciation tax deduction.

Date: 2014-03-12
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to modify a specified Treasury Regulation to increase from $500 to $1,000 the limitation governing the de minimis safe harbor for taxpayers without applicable financial statements.

Date: 2014-03-27
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the new markets tax credit, (2) provide for an inflation adjustment to the limitation amount for such credit after 2013, and (3) allow an offset against the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for such credit (determined with respect to qualified equity investments initially made after the enactment of this Act).

Date: 2014-04-02
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
American Microturbine Manufacturing and Clean Energy Deployment Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1)  allow a 30% energy tax credit for qualified microturbine property, (2) revise the definition of "qualified microturbine property" to increase the maximum nameplate capacity of such property to 5,000 kilowatts, and (3) eliminate the limitation on such credit based upon kilowatt capacity.

Date: 2014-04-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Cut Taxes for the Middle Class Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2014: (1) the tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes, (2) the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses, (3) the tax deduction for expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers, (4) the tax credit for differential wage payments to employees who are active duty members of the Uniformed Services, (5) the work opportunity tax credit, (6) the new markets tax credit, and (7) the tax credit for increasing research activities.

Amends the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008 to extend through 2014 the exemption of the basic military housing allowance from the income test for programs financed by tax-exempt housing bonds. 

Date: 2014-04-10
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Small Business Growth and Investment Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase: (1) the expensing allowance for depreciable business property to $250,000 for taxable years beginning after 2013, and (2) the threshold level for such property over which the expensing allowance is reduced to $800,000.  

Date: 2014-04-28
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Private Foundation Excise Tax Simplification Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce from 2% to 1% the excise tax rate on the net investment income of tax-exempt private foundations, and (2) repeal the 1% reduction in such tax rate for private foundations that meet certain distribution requirements.

Date: 2014-05-20
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Facilitating Investments in Local Markets Act or the FILM Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the expensing of the costs of qualified film and television productions, to: (1) extend through 2015 provisions allowing such expensing, and (2) allow such expensing for the costs of certain live theatrical productions.

Date: 2014-06-17
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Angel Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new business-related tax credit for 25% of equity investments of $25,000 or more in a domestic corporation or partnership that: (1) has its headquarters in the United States, (2) has gross revenues for the taxable year of less than $1 million, (3) employs fewer than 25 full-time employees, (4) has been in existence for less than 7 years as of the date of the investment, (5) has more than 50% of its employees performing substantially all of their services in the United States, and (6) is engaged in a high technology trade or business. Limits the allowable amount of such credit to $250,000 in any taxable year and imposes an overall limitation on such credit of $500 million for each of calendar years 2013 through 2017.

Date: 2014-06-20
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Tax Equality for Entrepreneurs Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) accelerated depreciation (15-year cost recovery) of qualified leasehold and retail improvement property and qualified restaurant property; and (2) the election to expense such property.

Date: 2014-06-23
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to qualified zone academy bonds, to: (1) extend through 2015 the national limitation amount for such bonds, and (2) reduce from 10% to 5% of bond proceeds the required contribution amount for private businesses.

Date: 2014-07-31
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the 10% excise tax on indoor tanning services.

Date: 2014-09-10
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Concrete Pump Tax Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a vehicle mileage tax on owners of mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicles. Defines "mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicle" as a vehicle which is mobile machinery and on which the mounted machinery consists of a concrete boom pump and related subordinate parts. Directs that revenues from such tax be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund.

Date: 2014-09-15
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Film Incentive Reform Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2015 the election to expense the cost of qualified film, television, and theatrical productions; and (2) include theatrical productions in such expensing allowance. Defines "theatrical production" as a live staged production of a play derived from a written book or script and produced or presented in any venue which has an audience capacity of more than 3,000.

Date: 2014-09-16
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2014 - Makes technical and clerical amendments to:

 the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012; the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012; the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012; the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010; the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010; the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010; the Hiring Incentives To Restore Employment Act; the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009; the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008; the Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008; the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008; the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008; the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008; the Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2007; the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006; the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005: A Legacy for Users; the Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2005; and the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. Eliminates provisions in the Internal Revenue Code that are not used in computing current tax liabilities (referred to as deadwood provisions).

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax credit for social security taxes paid for employee cash tips to employers of cosmetologists.

Requires employers of cosmetologists to report income and tips of their cosmetology employees and to provide income and tip information to self-employed cosmetologists to whom they pay more than $600 in the taxable year. Imposes similar reporting requirements upon individuals who rent chairs to cosmetologists. Requires such employers to provide their cosmetology employees and self-employed cosmetologists with information on the tax and tip reporting obligations of employees and self-employed individuals.

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Philanthropic Enterprise Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt the holdings of a private foundation in any business enterprise that meets specified requirements relating to exclusive ownership, minimum distribution of net operating income for the charitable purpose, and independent operation (i.e., not controlled by a substantial contributor or family members) from the excise taxes on excess business holdings and unrelated business income.

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Supporting America's Charities Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the tax deduction for charitable contributions by individuals and corporations of real property interests for conservation purposes, and (2) tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for charitable purposes. Allows a tax deduction for charitable contributions for conservation purposes of property conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act by an Alaska Native Corporation.

Modifies the tax deduction for charitiable contributions of food inventory to: (1) increase the amount of deductible food inventory contributions that taxpayers other than C corporations may make in any taxable year from 10% to 15% of their aggregate net income and to limit such amount for a C corporation to 15% of its taxable income; (2) permit a taxpayer who is not required to account for inventories or capitalize indirect costs to elect, solely for purposes of computing the amount of such deduction, to treat the basis of any apparently wholesome food (as defined in the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act) as equal to 25% of the fair market value of such food and to set forth a formula for determining the fair market value of such food; and (3) make such deduction, as modified, permanent.

Date: 2014-12-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Dollar is a Dollar Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions allowing a lower income tax rate for capital gains income.

Date: 2014-12-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
American Solution for Simplifying the Estate Tax Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue to: (1) allow taxpayers an election to make annual payments of 1% of their adjusted gross income for a minimum seven-year period in lieu of existing estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and (2) allow a step-up in basis for estate property of a taxpayer making an election under this Act. Sets forth requirements for the filing of an estate tax return for taxpayers who have made an election under this Act.

Date: 2014-12-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Flat Tax Rate Act - Imposes a federal income tax rate of 15% on all income of all U.S. citizens, regardless of annual income or current economic standing. Allows exemptions for single and joint tax return filers and for each child of a taxpayer up to the age of 18.

Date: 2014-12-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Alternative Maximum Tax Act or the Max Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an alternative maximum tax for a taxpayer other than a corporate taxpayer. Limits the tax to 50% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income, calculated by adding all federal, state, and local taxes paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year and dividing that amount by the taxpayer's adjusted gross income.

Date: 4/29/2014
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.

Date: 2013-01-22
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all taxpayers, including taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions, a tax deduction for expenses relating to the home schooling of their children at the elementary or secondary school level.

Date: 2013-01-23
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Fair Tax Act of 2013 - Repeals the income tax, employment tax, and estate and gift tax. Redesignates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the Internal Revenue Code of 2013.

Imposes a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services. Sets the sales tax rate at 23% in 2015, with adjustments to the rate in subsequent years. Allows exemptions from the tax for property or services purchased for business, export, or investment purposes, and for state government functions. Sets forth rules relating to: (1) the collection and remittance of the sales tax, and (2) credits and refunds. Allows a monthly sales tax rebate for families meeting certain size and income requirements. Grants states the primary authority for the collection of sales tax revenues and the remittance of such revenues to the Treasury. Sets forth administrative provisions relating to: (1) the filing of monthly reports and payments of tax; (2) accounting methods; (3) registration of sellers of goods and services responsible for reporting sales; (4) penalties for noncompliance; and (5) collections, appeals, and taxpayer rights. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate sales tax revenues among: (1) the general revenue, (2) the old-age and survivors insurance trust fund, (3) the disability insurance trust fund, (4) the hospital insurance trust fund, and (5) the federal supplementary medical insurance trust fund. Prohibits the funding of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after FY2017. Establishes in the Department of the Treasury: (1) an Excise Tax Bureau to administer excise taxes not administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF); and (2) a Sales Tax Bureau to administer the national sales tax. Terminates the sales tax imposed by this Act if the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (authorizing an income tax) is not repealed within seven years after the enactment of this Act.

Date: 2013-01-23
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes.

Date: 2013-01-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Restoring America's Competitiveness in Enterprise (RACE) Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum income tax rate on corporations, including personal service corporations, to 20% of taxable income over $50,000.

Date: 2013-01-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Simplified, Manageable, And Responsible Tax Act or the SMART Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the marginal income tax rates with a single rate of 17% on individual taxable income. Redefines "taxable income" to mean the amount by which wages, retirement distributions, and unemployment compensation exceed the standard deduction. Increases the basic standard deduction and includes an additional standard deduction for dependents. Includes in taxable income the taxable income of each dependent child under the age of 14. Replaces the current tax on corporations with a tax on every person engaged in a business activity equal to 17% of the business taxable income of such person. Makes the person engaged in the business activity liable for the tax, whether or not such person is an individual, a partnership, or a corporation. Imposes a tax of 17% on the value of excludable compensation provided during the year by an employer for the benefit of employees. Makes the employer liable for the tax. Repeals pension plan rules relating to : (1) non-discrimination, (2) contribution limits, and (3) restrictions on distributions. Revises rules relating to transfers of excess pension assets. Repeals: (1) the alternative minimum tax; (2) all income tax credits; (3) estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes; and (4) income tax provisions, except certain provisions relating to retirement distributions and tax-exempt organizations. Declares it not in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate, unless waived or suspended by a three-fifths vote, to consider any legislation that increases or adds an income tax rate, reduces the standard deduction, or provides any exclusion, deduction, credit, or other benefit that reduces federal revenues.

Date: 2013-01-29
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Paying a Fair Share Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require an individual taxpayer whose adjusted gross income exceeds $1 million to pay a minimum tax rate of 30% of the excess of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income over the taxpayer's modified charitable contribution deduction for the taxable year (tentative fair share tax). Establishes the amount of such tax as the excess (if any) of the tentative fair share tax over the excess of: (1) the sum of the taxpayer's regular tax liability, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) amount, and the payroll tax for the taxable year; over (2) certain tax credits. Provides for a phase-in of such tax. Requires an inflation adjustment to the $1 million income threshold for taxable years beginning after 2014.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should enact tax reform that repeals unfair and unnecessary tax loopholes and expenditures, simplifies the tax system, and makes sure that the wealthiest taxpayers pay a fair share of taxes.

Date: 2013-02-13
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the special depreciation allowance (bonus depreciation) for dairy producing calves and cows purchased for business use, regardless of whether the original use of such livestock commenced with another taxpayer.

Date: 2013-03-07
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period classification for qualified leasehold improvement, restaurant, and retail improvement property, for purposes of the depreciation tax deduction.

Date: 2013-04-17
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
American Opportunity Tax Credit Permanence and Consolidation Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits with a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that: (1) allows an income tax credit of up to $3,000 of the qualified tuition and related expenses of a student who is carrying at least one half of a normal course load, (2) increases the income threshold for reductions in the credit amount based upon modified adjusted gross income, (3) allows a lifetime dollar limitation on such credit of $15,000 for all taxable years, and (4) makes 40% of the credit refundable. Allows an exclusion from gross income of any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant.

Date: 2013-04-25
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify Indian tribes as eligible recipients of tax deductible contributions of "apparently wholesome food," as defined by the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act.

Date: 2013-05-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of the excise tax on beer produced within or imported into the United States for brewers who produce not more than 6 million barrels of beer a year.

Date: 2013-05-09
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Brewers Excise and Economic Relief Act of 2013 or the BEER Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce from $18 to $9 (the pre-1991 level) the per-barrel tax on beer; and (2) further reduce the rate of such tax on brewers who produce not more than 2 million barrels of beer during the calendar year.

Date: 2013-05-15
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to equalize and increase to $245, with a cost-of-living adjustment after 2013, the tax exclusion for both transportation and parking fringe benefits.

Authorizes agencies to establish a program involving such benefits in lieu of transit passes to encourage commuting by federal employees by means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles.

Date: 2013-06-07
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the new markets tax credit, (2) provide for an inflation adjustment to the limitation amount for such credit after 2013, and (3) allow an offset against the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for such credit (determined with respect to qualified equity investments initially made before January 1, 2014).

Date: 2013-06-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) 100% expensing in a current taxable year of the cost of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property, as defined by this Act; and (2) accelerated depreciation (i.e., a 15-year recovery period) of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property that is installed in a building or structure where the floor of any occupiable story is greater than 75 feet above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access and that has a certain classification by the National Fire Protection Association.

Date: 2013-06-13
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Helping Our Middle-Class Entrepreneurs Act or the HOME Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who uses a residence to conduct a trade or business a standard tax deduction equal to the lesser of $1,500 or the taxpayer's gross trade or business income derived from the business use of such residence.

Date: 2013-06-27
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Qualifying Renewable Chemical Production Tax Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for the production of renewable chemicals. 

Defines "renewable chemical" as any chemical that is: (1) produced in the United States from renewable biomass; (2) sold or used by the taxpayer as polymers, plastics, or formulated products or for the production of polymers, plastics, or formulated products; and (3) not sold or used for the production of any food, feed, or fuel.  Exempts certain chemicals, including those with a biobased content of less than 25%.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a five-year program to allocate credit amounts. Limits the total amount of allocable credits under such program to $500 million, with a limit of $25 million to any taxpayer in any taxable year.

Date: 2013-06-27
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an increase in the limitation on the election to accelerate the alternative minimum tax (AMT) credit in lieu of bonus depreciation for certain property placed in service by a corporation after December 31, 2012.

Date: 2013-07-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase, for taxable years beginning after 2013: (1) the limitation on the amount of the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets from $25,000 to $200,000, and (2) the threshold amount over which such expensing allowance is reduced from $200,000 to $800,000.

Date: 2013-07-16
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2013 - Prohibits a state or local jurisdiction from imposing multiple or discriminatory taxes on the sale or use of a digital good or service delivered or transferred electronically to a customer. Excludes from the definition of "digital service" a service that is predominantly attributable to the direct, contemporaneous expenditure of live human effort, skill, or expertise, a telecommunications service, an ancillary service, an Internet access service, an audio or video programming service, or a hotel intermediary service.

Restricts taxation of a digital good or service to taxation by a state or local jurisdiction whose territorial limits encompass a customer tax address, as defined by this Act. Makes the seller of digital goods or services responsible for obtaining and maintaining such address. Provides for the taxation of digital goods and services transactions that are aggregated and not separately stated.

Date: 2013-07-25
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Extension Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory by limiting the reduction in such deduction to the amount by which the fair market valuation of the contributed food exceeds twice the basis of such food, and (2) make such deduction permanent.

Date: 2013-07-30
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Death Tax Repeal Act - Repeals the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

Date: 2013-07-31
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Improving the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Rate Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the the minimum low-income housing tax credit rate for new buildings that are not federally subsidized, and (2) establish a minimum 4% low-income housing tax rate for existing buildings that are not federally subsidized.

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Aged Distilled Spirits Competitiveness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude the aging period from the production period for distilled spirits for purposes of determining whether a taxpayer can expense, rather than capitalize, interest costs paid or incurred during the production period.

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Americans Giving Care to Elders (AGE) Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow caregivers a tax credit for up to $6,000 of the eldercare expenses incurred for their parents (or ancestors of such parents).

Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to: (1) increase and extend funding for the National Family Caregiver Support Program through FY2017, and (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award a grant to or enter into a cooperative agreement with a public or private nonprofit entity to establish a National Resource Center on Family Caregiving to provide information on and support for family caregiver support programs.

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Cider Investment and Development through Excise Tax Reduction (CIDER) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue to revise the definition of "hard cider," for purposes of the excise tax on distilled spirits, wines, and beer, to mean a wine: (1) the carbonation level of which does not exceed 6.4 grams per liter; (2) which is derived primarily from apples, apple juice concentrate, pears, or pear juice concentrate, and water; (3) which contains no fruit product or fruit flavoring other than apple or pear; and (4) which contains at least one-half of 1% and less than 8.5% alcohol by volume.

Date: 2013-09-19
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Family Fairness and Opportunity Tax Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of individual and married taxpayers, to:

 reduce to two the number of individual income tax brackets, imposing a 15% tax rate on income up to $87,850 ($175,700 for married couples filing a joint return and surviving spouses) and a 35% rate on income above such level; eliminate or reduce the capital gains tax rate based on taxable income levels; repeal after 2013 the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for individual and corporate taxpayers; increase from $1,000 to $2,500 the child tax credit and make a portion of such credit refundable; allow a new personal income tax credit of $2,000 for individual taxpayers ($4,000 for married couples filing a joint return and surviving spouses) in lieu of the standard tax deduction, the personal tax exemption, and certain itemized deductions, other than the deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions; provide annual inflation adjustments after 2013 to income levels and credit amounts in this Act; make mortgage interest and charitable contributions deductible from gross income (above-the-line deductions); limit to $300,000 the deductible amount of acquisition indebtedness for principal residences (currently, $1 million); repeal the additional hospital insurance tax on individual taxpayers earning over $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples filing joint tax returns); and repeal the 3.8% Medicare tax on certain unearned income (e.g., income from rents, royalties, stocks, bonds, and other investments).

Date: 2013-10-30
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Government Settlement Transparency and Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand provisions relating to the nondeductibility of fines and penalties, to prohibit a tax deduction for any amount paid or incurred to any governmental entity relating to the violation of any law or the investigation or inquiry into a potential violation of law. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) restitution or amounts paid to come into compliance with any law that was violated or otherwise involved in the investigation or inquiry, (2) amounts paid pursuant to a court order in a suit in which the governmental entity was not a party, and (3) amounts paid or incurred as taxes due. Imposes new reporting requirements on governmental entities relating to amounts paid as fines or for restitution.

Date: 2013-11-05
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax exclusion of distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for charitable purposes to: (1) make such exclusion permanent; (2) eliminate the $100,000 cap on such exclusion; (3) permit tax-free distributions from IRAs to a split-interest entity (i.e., a charitable remainder annuity or unitrust, a pooled income fund, and a charitable gift annuity); and (4) allow distributions to a split-interest entity to be made when the account beneficiary attains age 59-1/2 (otherwise, age 70-1/2 for IRA distributions to a charitable organization).

Date: 2013-11-21
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from 10 to 5 years the period during which the built-in gains of an S corporation are subject to tax and to make such reduction permanent.

Date: 2013-12-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Manufacturing Communities Investment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the new markets tax credit, to: (1) increase to $5 billion and extend through 2016 the national limitation amount for such credit, and (2) allow an additional $1 billion allocation of such credit in 2014, 2015, and 2016, for a qualified community development entity only if a significant mission of such entity is providing investments and services to manufacturing businesses in communities that have suffered major manufacturing job losses or a major job loss event.

Date: 2014-01-07
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Makes permanent the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Program (under which counties or other eligible units of local government in which U.S.-owned entitlement land is located are entitled to certain payments under such program which may be used for any governmental purpose).

Date: 2014-01-13
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
21st Century Worker Tax Cut Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow married taxpayers with at least one qualifying child under the age of 12 an income-based tax deduction equal to 20% of the lesser of $60,000 or the earned income of the spouse with the lower amount of earned income; (2) increase the amount of the earned income tax credit for taxpayers with no qualifying children; (3) increase the penalty for tax return preparers who fail to comply with due diligence requirements for determining eligibility for the earned income tax credit; (4) extend the limitation on the tax deduction for employee remuneration to current or former officers, directors, or employees of a publicly-held corporation; and (5) include in subpart F income (income of controlled foreign corporations the tax on which may not be deferred) low-taxed cross-border income (gross income of a controlled foreign corporation except income that was derived in the home country of such corporation or was subject to an effective rate of income tax imposed by a foreign country in excess of 15%). 

Date: 2014-03-26
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Distillery Excise Tax Reform Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of the excise tax on distilled spirits to $2.70 per proof gallon (currently, $13.50 per proof gallon) on the first 100,000 gallons produced by a distilled spirits producer during the calendar year.

Date: 2014-03-27
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal tax credits for: (1) alcohol fuel, biodiesel, and alternative fuel mixtures; (2) alternative motor vehicles; (3) new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles; (4) alcohol used as fuel; (5) enhanced oil recovery; (6) producing oil and gas from marginal wells; (7) producing electricity from advanced nuclear power facilities; (8) carbon dioxide sequestration; (9) investment in energy property; and (10) investment in qualifying advanced coal projects, qualifying gasification projects, and qualifying advanced energy projects.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to revise the income tax rates for corporations based upon the overall revenue savings from the repeal of the energy tax expenditures by this Act and ensure that each revised rate is reduced by a uniform percentage.

Date: 2014-05-01
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Angel Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new business-related tax credit for 25% of equity investments of $25,000 or more in a domestic corporation or partnership that: (1) has its headquarters in the United States, (2) has gross revenues for the taxable year of less than $1 million, (3) employs fewer than 25 full-time employees, (4) has been in existence for less than 7 years as of the date of the investment, (5) has more than 50% of its employees performing substantially all of their services in the United States, and (6) is engaged in a high technology trade or business. Limits the allowable amount of such credit to $250,000 in any taxable year and imposes an overall limitation on such credit of $500 million for each of calendar years 2013 through 2017.

Date: 2014-06-19
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the exclusion of payments made from an accident or health plan funded by a state entity from gross income for income tax purposes, to: (1) include payments made to an employee or to a spouse, dependent, or child of an employee; and (2) extend reimbursement of health care expenses under such a plan to any beneficiary of a deceased plan participant other than a surviving spouse, dependent, or child.

Date: 2014-07-24
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend until December 31, 2014: (1) the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce, and (2) the grandfather provisions allowing states that imposed and enforced laws imposing a tax on internet access prior to October 1, 1998, to continue enforcing such laws.

Date: 2014-07-31
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Responsible Estate Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, to: (1) revise estate tax rates to impose an increased tax for estates over $3.5 million and a maximum tax rate of 55% for estates over $50 million; (2) impose a 10% surtax on estates over $500 million; (3) reduce the basic estate tax exclusion amount from $5 million to $3.5 million; (4) increase to $3 million the reduction in valuations of farmland for estate tax purposes and adjust such increased amount for inflation after 2014; and (5) increase to $2 million the maximum estate tax exclusion for contributions of conservation easements.

Requires that the value of the basis in any property acquired from a decedent or by gift be consistent with the basis as determined for estate and gift tax purposes. Requires executors of estates and donors of gifts required to file a gift tax return to disclose to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to recipients of any interest in an estate or a gift, information identifying the value of each interest received.

Sets forth estate valuation rules for certain transfers of nonbusiness assets and limits estate tax discounts for certain individuals with minority interests in a business acquired from a decedent.

Expands rules for valuing assets in grantor retained annuity trusts to require that: (1) the right to receive fixed amounts from an annuity last for a term of not less than 10 years and that such fixed amounts not decrease during the first 10 years of the annuity term, and (2) the remainder interest have a value greater than 10% when transferred.

Sets forth rules for the application of transfer taxes to a grantor trust (a trust in which the grantor retains control over the trust assets and has the right to receive income from the trust).

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Progressive Consumption Tax Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a consumption tax of 10% of the taxable amount of domestic goods and services. Exempts from such tax certain goods and services exported or used outside the United States.

Lowers individual and corporate income tax rates. Repeals specified income tax credits and deductions, except for the deductions for mortgage interest, charitable contributions, state and local income taxes, gambling losses, alimony payments, and investment interest.

Provides for a family allowance of up to $100,000 for married individuals filing a joint tax return.

Allows a rebate for U.S. taxpayers consisting of an earned income amount and a child benefit amount.

Provides for a refund of excess consumption tax revenue (net consumption tax revenues that exceed 10% of gross domestic product in a calendar year) to individual taxpayers.

Date: 2014-12-11
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
FairTax Act of 2015

This bill is a tax reform proposal that imposes a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services in lieu of the current income and corporate income tax, employment and self-employment taxes, and estate and gift taxes. The rate of the sales tax will be 23% in 2017, with adjustments to the rate in subsequent years. There are exemptions from the tax for used and intangible property, for property or services purchased for business, export, or investment purposes, and for state government functions.

Under the bill, family members who are lawful U.S. residents receive a monthly sales tax rebate (Family Consumption Allowance) based upon criteria related to family size and poverty guidelines.

The states have the responsibility for administering, collecting, and remitting the sales tax to the Treasury.

Tax revenues are to be allocated among: (1) the general revenue, (2) the old-age and survivors insurance trust fund, (3) the disability insurance trust fund, (4) the hospital insurance trust fund, and (5) the federal supplementary medical insurance trust fund.

No funding is allowed for the operations of the Internal Revenue Service after FY2019.

Finally, the bill terminates the national sales tax if the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (authorizing an income tax) is not repealed within seven years after the enactment of this Act.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require: (1) the reinstatement of the tax-exempt status of a tax-exempt subsidiary organization with fewer than 50 members whose tax-exempt status was revoked due to failure to file required tax returns or notices, and (2) a waiver of any user fee charged in connection with a reinstatement application. As a condition for reinstatement, the organization must file any required returns or notices.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Alternative Maximum Tax Act or the Max Tax Act

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an alternative maximum tax for a taxpayer other than a corporate taxpayer. Limits the tax to 50% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income, calculated by adding all federal, state, and local taxes paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year and dividing that amount by the taxpayer's adjusted gross income.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Death Tax Repeal Act

Repeals the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Farmers Against Crippling Taxes Act

Repeals the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

Date: 2015-01-07
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce Act or the Small BREW Act

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of the excise tax on beer produced within or imported into the United States for brewers who produce not more than 6 million barrels of beer a year.

Date: 2015-01-08
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.

Date: 2015-01-09
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Support Our Startups Act of 2015

This bill allows the increased tax deduction amount for business start-up expenses (defined as expenses for investigating the creation or acquisition of an active trade or business) for taxable years beginning in 2015 or 2016.

Date: 2015-01-09
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Next Generation American Manufacturing Act of 2015

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the purchase (during a specified period of between 5 and 10 years based on the incentive needed with respect to each product) of new products certified as assembled in the United States and consisting of at least 60% of components assembled or otherwise arising in the United States.

Establishes the 21st Century American Manufacturing Commission to conduct research to designate products eligible for such tax credit.

Allows certain start-up companies that are headquartered in the United States a tax credit for up to 25% of their costs for the construction of a manufacturing facility and for the purchase of specialized equipment for use at such facility. Defines a "start-up company" as any corporation or partnership that: (1) first has both gross receipts and qualified research expenses in a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2012; or (2) has both gross receipts and qualified research expenses in fewer than three taxable years beginning after December 31, 2012, and before January 1, 2018.

Date: 2015-01-09
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Paying a Fair Share Act of 2015

 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require an individual taxpayer whose adjusted gross income exceeds $1 million (high-income taxpayer) to pay a minimum tax rate of 30% of the excess of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income over the taxpayer's modified charitable contribution deduction for the taxable year (tentative fair share tax). Establishes the amount of such tax as the excess (if any) of the tentative fair share tax over the excess of: (1) the sum of the taxpayer's regular tax liability, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) amount, and the payroll tax for the taxable year; over (2) certain tax credits. Provides for a phase-in of such tax. Requires an inflation adjustment to the $1 million income threshold for taxable years beginning after 2016.

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact tax reform that repeals unfair and unnecessary tax loopholes and expenditures, simplifies the tax system, and makes sure that the wealthiest taxpayers pay a fair share of taxes.

Date: 2015-01-14
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation
Fairness in Taxation Act of 2015

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase individual income tax rates for taxpayers whose taxable income exceeds $1 million, and (2) provide for an adjustment in the capital gains tax of taxpayers whose taxable income is subject to the 45% tax bracket.

Date: 2015-01-14
Topic: Macroeconomics (Tax Code)
Subject: Taxation