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Also tagged in: Agriculture, Armed forces, Civil liberties, Colorado, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Defense policy, Easements, Economic impact statements, Economic policy, Eminent domain, Environmental assessment, Environmental protection, Land transfers, Law, Local taxation, Military bases, Military maneuvers, Natural resources, Property tax, Public lands, Range management, State and local government, Taxation
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S134) Bill TextA bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to acquire land for the purposes of expanding Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire land near Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site for the purpose of expanding the Site. Prohibits any acquisition that would require the exercise of eminent domain by a federal or state entity.
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Business, Civil liberties, Congress, Congressional oversight, Data banks, Electronic commerce, Excise tax, Internet, Interstate compacts, Judicial review, Law, Minorities, Right of privacy, Sales tax, Small business, State and local government, State government-Indian relations, State taxation, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax rates, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax simplification, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Telecommunication industry
Latest Action: 05/22/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to promote simplification and fairness in the administration and collection of sales and use taxes. 5/22/2007--Introduced. Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act - Grants the consent of Congress to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (Agreement), the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant federal authorizations to states that are parties to it (member states) to require remote sellers (sellers without a physical presence in the taxing state) to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such states and their local taxing jurisdictions.Authorizes each member state, after 10 states (comprising at least 20% of all states imposing a sales tax) have petitioned for and become member states, to require all sellers, except those sellers with gross remote taxable sales nationwide [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Affiliated corporations, Aged, Aliens, Budgets, Business, Cost of living adjustments, Department of the Treasury, Estate tax, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Exports, Families, Finance, Financial services, Foreign corporations, Gambling, Gift tax, Government information, Government paperwork, Government trust funds, Health policy, Hobbies, Immigration, Income tax, Insurance, Interest, Internal revenue law, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Interstate compacts, Inventories, Labor, Law, Loan defaults, Medical care, Medicare, Old age, survivors and disability insurance, Payroll deductions, Politics and government, Poverty, Rebates, Sales tax, Small business, Social security, Social security finance, Social security taxes, Sports, State and local government, State politics and government, Tax administration, Tax auditing, Tax courts, Tax credits, Tax liens, Tax penalties, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax simplification, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Taxpayer compliance, Taxpayers, Telecommunication, Telephone, Trade, Wages, Welfare, Withholding tax
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Fair Tax Act of 2007 - Repeals the income tax, employment tax, and estate and gift tax. Redesignates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the Internal Revenue Code of 2007. 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 percent in 2009, 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 families a sales tax rebate.Grants states the primary authority for the collection [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S148) Bill TextA bill to make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007 - 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.
Also tagged in: Business, Electronic commerce, Electronic mail systems, Excise tax, Federal preemption, Internet, Local laws, Local taxation, Sales tax, State and local government, State laws, State taxation, Tax administration, Tax exemption, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Bill TextTo make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent. 1/31/2007--Introduced. Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007 - 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.
Also tagged in: Business, Economic development, Economic policy, Income tax, Interstate commerce, Job creation, Labor, State and local government, State taxation, Tax incentives, Taxation
Latest Action: 03/19/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to authorize the States (and subdivisions thereof), the District of Columbia, territories, and possessions of the United States to provide certain tax incentives to any person for economic development purposes. 3/19/2007--Introduced. Economic Development Act of 2007 - Authorizes any state to provide to any person for economic development purposes tax incentives that otherwise would be the cause or source of discrimination against interstate commerce under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Disqualifies any incentive that: (1) is dependent upon the state or country of incorporation, commercial domicile, or residence of an individual; (2) requires the recipient to acquire, lease, license, use, or provide services to property created in the state; (3) is reduced or eliminated as a result of an increase in out-of-state activity by the recipient or other person or as a result of such other person not having a taxable presence in the state; (4) results in loss of a [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Business, Electronic commerce, Electronic mail systems, Excise tax, Federal preemption, Internet, Local laws, Local taxation, Sales tax, State and local government, State laws, State taxation, Tax administration, Tax exemption, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication
Latest Action: 03/19/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Bill TextTo amend the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the moratorium on certain taxes relating to the Internet and to electronic commerce. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Internet Consumer Protection Act of 2007 - 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. Repeals provisions permitting states with Internet tax laws enacted prior to the ban on Internet taxes to continue enforcing such laws.
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Affiliated corporations, Aged, Aliens, Budgets, Business, Cost of living adjustments, Department of the Treasury, Estate tax, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Exports, Families, Finance, Financial services, Foreign corporations, Gambling, Gift tax, Government information, Government paperwork, Government trust funds, Health policy, Hobbies, Immigration, Income tax, Insurance, Interest, Internal revenue law, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Interstate compacts, Inventories, Labor, Law, Loan defaults, Medical care, Medicare, Old age, survivors and disability insurance, Payroll deductions, Politics and government, Poverty, Rebates, Sales tax, Small business, Social security, Social security finance, Social security taxes, Sports, State and local government, State politics and government, Tax administration, Tax auditing, Tax courts, Tax credits, Tax liens, Tax penalties, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax simplification, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Taxpayer compliance, Taxpayers, Telecommunication, Telephone, Trade, Wages, Welfare, Withholding tax
Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Fair Tax Act of 2007 - Repeals the income tax, employment tax, and estate and gift tax. Redesignates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the Internal Revenue Code of 2007. 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 2009, 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 families a sales tax rebate.Grants states the primary authority for the collection [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Business, Electronic commerce, Electronic mail systems, Excise tax, Federal preemption, Internet, Local laws, Local taxation, Sales tax, State and local government, State laws, State taxation, Tax administration, Tax exemption, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication
Latest Action: 09/27/2007 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Date of scheduled consideration. SR-253. 2:30 p.m. Bill TextA bill to extend the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and for other purposes. 5/23/2007--Introduced. ITFA Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend until November 1, 2011: (1) the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce; and (2) provisions allowing states with Internet tax laws enacted prior to the ban to continue enforcing such laws.
Latest Action: 06/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Bill TextTo prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes. 5/9/2007--Introduced. Prohibits a state from imposing a tax on the income earned in the state by nonresidents unless the tax is of substantial equality of treatment for the citizens of the state and the nonresidents so commuting.
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Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide Federal reimbursement to State and local governments for a limited sales, use, and retailers' occupation tax holiday. 1/29/2008--Introduced. Sales Tax Holiday Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse each state that elects to partipicapte in a sales tax holiday period (beginning after April 3, 2008, and ending before April 14, 2008) for 60% of the amount of state and local sales tax payable and not collected during such period.
Also tagged in: Accounting, Administrative procedure, Aged, Aliens, Alimony, Americans in foreign countries, Annuities, Armed forces, Athletics, Bank accounts, Banks and banking, Bonds, Business, Business travel, Capital gains tax, Cemeteries and funerals, Charitable contributions, Child support, Children, College costs, College sports, Colleges, Commemorations, Communications, Conservation of natural resources, Contracts, Cooperative societies, Corporate governance, Corporate mergers, Corporation taxes, Cost of living adjustments, Criminal justice, Damages, Debt, Defense policy, Department of the Treasury, Depreciation and amortization, Disability insurance, Disabled, Dividends, Divorce, Economic policy, Education, Education savings accounts, Employee ownership, Employee training, Environmental protection, Estate tax, Executive departments, Expatriation, Families, Finance, Financial services, Food, Foreign corporations, Foreign policy, Foster home care, Foundations, Fringe benefits, Gift tax, Gifts, Government corporations, Habitat conservation, Health insurance, Health policy, Higher education, Historic sites, History, Home ownership, Housing, Housing finance, Immigration, Imports, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Individual retirement accounts, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Interest, International affairs, Job training, Labor, Land use, Law, Leases, Life insurance, Loan defaults, Lobbying, Local government, Losses, Marketing, Married people, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical research, Medical savings accounts, Medicare, Military pay, Military pensions, Mortgages, Natural resources, Officer personnel, Old age, survivors and disability insurance, Open space lands, Outdoor recreation, Partnerships, Pensions, Politics and government, Profit, Railroad retirement plans, Real estate business, Real estate development, Recreation areas, Rent, Salaries, School personnel, Science policy, Single people, Social security, Social security taxes, Social services, Sports, Sports facilities, State and local government, State politics and government, Stocks, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax deferral, Tax evasion, Tax exclusion, Tax exemption, Tax penalties, Tax rates, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax simplification, Tax treaties, Tax-deferred compensation plans, Tax-exempt organizations, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Teachers, Telecommunication, Telecommunication industry, Telephone, Territories (U.S.), Terrorism, Torts, Trade, Transportation, Travel costs, Trusts and trustees, Unemployment, Unrelated business income tax, Vocational education, Wages, Withholding tax, Workers' compensation
Latest Action: 11/13/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restructure and replace the income tax system of the United States to meet national priorities, and for other purposes. 11/13/2007--Introduced. Simplified USA Tax Act of 2007 - Repeals, after 2006, income tax and estate and gift tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Replaces such Code with a new tax system, to be known as the Simplified USA Tax. Establishes three income tax brackets at 15, 25, and 30% for individual taxpayers. Redefines "gross income" and allows certain exclusions from gross income, including previously-taxed benefits, tax-exempt bond interest, compensation for injuries and sickness, and gain from the sale of a principal residence. Allows tax deductions for alimony and child support, home mortgage interest, certain higher education expenses, and charitable contributions. Allows a tax credit for employee social security payroll taxes.Revises rules for Roth individual retirement [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 10/03/2007 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 401. Bill TextA bill to make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent. 10/2/2007--Introduced. Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007 - 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.
Also tagged in: Diesel motor, Energy, Excise tax, Federal-state relations, Gasoline, Highway maintenance, Infrastructure, Interstate highway system, State and local government, State taxation, Tax rates, Taxation, Transportation
Latest Action: 09/07/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the Federal tax on fuels by the amount of any increase in the rate of tax on such fuel by the States. 9/7/2007--Introduced. Surface Transportation and Taxation Equity Act or STATE Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the federal excise tax on gasoline and special fuels (but not below two cents per gallon) by corresponding increases in fuel taxes imposed by States after March 5, 2007.
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Business, Civil liberties, Congress, Congressional oversight, Data banks, Electronic commerce, Excise tax, Internet, Interstate compacts, Judicial review, Law, Right of privacy, Sales tax, Small business, State and local government, State taxation, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax rates, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax simplification, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Telecommunication industry
Latest Action: 09/10/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Bill TextTo promote simplification and fairness in the administration and collection of sales and use taxes. 8/3/2007--Introduced. Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act - Grants the consent of Congress to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (Agreement), the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant federal authorizations to states that are parties to it (member states) to require remote sellers (sellers without a physical presence in the taxing state) to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such states and their local taxing jurisdictions.Authorizes each member state, after 10 states (comprising at least 20% of all states imposing a sales tax) have petitioned for and become member states, to require all sellers, except those sellers with gross remote taxable sales nationwide of [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Budgets, Collection of accounts, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Government information, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Income tax, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Labor, State and local government, Tax administration, Tax exclusion, Taxation, Unemployment insurance, Withholding tax
Latest Action: 09/11/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Bill TextTo reform the Federal unemployment benefits system, and for other purposes. 6/21/2007--Introduced. Safety Net Enhancement Act - Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to revise the federal-state extended unemployment compensation program established under the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise the formula for "on" and "off" indicators on the state level used to determine extended unemployment compensation benefit periods. Amends the SSA to require: (1) an increase in earnings credited to a state account in the Unemployment Trust Fund when a state meets funding goals; and (2) a decrease in such earnings credited to a state account when the state fails to meet funding goals. Excludes any interest premium or penalty from such requirement to the extent that it would result in an increase or decrease of more than $2.5 million in the amount creditable to any state account for any calendar quarter. Amends [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Business, Electronic commerce, Electronic mail systems, Excise tax, Federal preemption, Internet, Local laws, Local taxation, Sales tax, State and local government, State laws, State taxation, Tax administration, Tax exemption, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication
Latest Action: 09/27/2007 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Date of scheduled consideration. SR-253. 2:30 p.m. Bill TextA bill to extend the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and for other purposes. 5/23/2007--Introduced. ITFA Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend until November 1, 2011: (1) the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce; and (2) provisions allowing states with Internet tax laws enacted prior to the ban to continue enforcing such laws.
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Business, Civil liberties, Congress, Congressional oversight, Data banks, Electronic commerce, Excise tax, Internet, Interstate compacts, Judicial review, Law, Minorities, Right of privacy, Sales tax, Small business, State and local government, State government-Indian relations, State taxation, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax rates, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax simplification, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Telecommunication industry
Latest Action: 05/22/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to promote simplification and fairness in the administration and collection of sales and use taxes. 5/22/2007--Introduced. Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act - Grants the consent of Congress to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (Agreement), the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant federal authorizations to states that are parties to it (member states) to require remote sellers (sellers without a physical presence in the taxing state) to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such states and their local taxing jurisdictions.Authorizes each member state, after 10 states (comprising at least 20% of all states imposing a sales tax) have petitioned for and become member states, to require all sellers, except those sellers with gross remote taxable sales nationwide [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Bill TextTo prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes. 5/9/2007--Introduced. Prohibits a state from imposing a tax on the income earned in the state by nonresidents unless the tax is of substantial equality of treatment for the citizens of the state and the nonresidents so commuting.
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Affiliated corporations, Aged, Aliens, Budgets, Business, Cost of living adjustments, Department of the Treasury, Estate tax, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Exports, Families, Finance, Financial services, Foreign corporations, Gambling, Gift tax, Government information, Government paperwork, Government trust funds, Health policy, Hobbies, Immigration, Income tax, Insurance, Interest, Internal revenue law, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Interstate compacts, Inventories, Labor, Law, Loan defaults, Medical care, Medicare, Old age, survivors and disability insurance, Payroll deductions, Politics and government, Poverty, Rebates, Sales tax, Small business, Social security, Social security finance, Social security taxes, Sports, State and local government, State politics and government, Tax administration, Tax auditing, Tax courts, Tax credits, Tax liens, Tax penalties, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax simplification, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Taxpayer compliance, Taxpayers, Telecommunication, Telephone, Trade, Wages, Welfare, Withholding tax
Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Fair Tax Act of 2007 - Repeals the income tax, employment tax, and estate and gift tax. Redesignates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the Internal Revenue Code of 2007. 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 2009, 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 families a sales tax rebate.Grants states the primary authority for the collection [...] show full description
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