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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S149-150) Bill TextA bill to expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen the health care safety net and make health care services more available in rural and underserved areas. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Access to Affordable Health Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) tax credits to small businesses for qualified employee health insurance expenses; (2) tax credits for qualified health insurance; (3) deductions for long-term care premiums; and (4) tax credits for individuals with long-term care needs. Requires the Secretary of Labor to award grants to states to assist in planning, developing, and operating qualified small employer purchasing groups for health insurance. Directs the Small Business Administration to award grants to states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations to provide health insurance information to small employers. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to award demonstration grants for [...] show full description
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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 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for small businesses, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Small Business Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow self-employed individuals to participate in cafeteria pension plans; (2) allow long-term care insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements; (3) allow accelerated amortization of certain intangible assets (e.g., good will) acquired from a small business; (4) increase the tax exclusion of gain from the sale of certain small business stock; (5) provide a $2,500 standard tax deduction for home business expenses; (6) permit certain small businesses to elect a taxable year ending in a month from April to November; (7) increase the allowable number of S corporation shareholders; and (8) exempt certain small businesses from withholding of tax requirements for payments made by government entities.
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Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Bill TextTo increase the minimum wage, to provide access to health care coverage to employees of small businesses, and to preserve American jobs. 1/9/2007--Introduced. Working Families Wage and Access to Health Care Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to incrementally increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25. Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for establishment and governance of association health plans (AHPs), which are group health plans whose sponsors are trade, industry, professional, chamber of commerce, or similar business associations, and which meet certain ERISA certification requirements. Establishes the Association Health Plan Fund to be used by the Secretary of Labor to make payments to an insurer to maintain coverage for a plan, if there is a reasonable expectation that, without such payments, claims would not be satisfied by reason of termination of coverage.[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Accounting, Business, Depreciation and amortization, Due process of law, Finance, Food, Foreign corporations, Income tax, Inventories, Labor, Law, Leases, Minimum wages, Pensions, Railroad retirement plans, Restaurants, Small business, Social security, Social security taxes, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax liens, Tax refunds, Tax shelters, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Taxpayers, Trade, Transportation, Unemployment insurance, Wages
Latest Action: 01/22/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes. 1/22/2007--Introduced. Minimum Wage Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day; and (3) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day.Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent accelerated cost recovery provisions for qualified leasehold improvement and restaurant property; (2) permit certain small businesses with gross receipts of not more than $10 million to use cash accounting methods and be exempt from the requirement of using inventories; (3) allow employers the work opportunity tax credit for hiring certain restaurant workers between the ages of 16 and 20; (4) set forth a definition and rules for evaluating the economic substance [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/22/2007 - Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Baucus. With written report No. 110-1. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax incentives to employers and employees of small businesses, and for other purposes. 1/22/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment, 1st committee reporting. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Small Business and Work Opportunity Act of 2007 - Title I: Small Business Tax Relief Provisions - Subtitle A: General Provisions - (Sec. 101) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010 the increased expensing allowance for small business assets. (Sec. 102) Extends through March 2008 accelerated depreciation of qualified leasehold and restaurant improvement property. Revises the definition of "qualified restaurant property" to eliminate the requirement that improvements to restaurant property must be [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Business, Defense policy, Defined benefit pension plans, Federal employees, Government employees, Income tax, Iraq compilation, Labor, Leave of absence, Military pay, Military personnel, National Guard, Pensions, Salaries, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax-deferred compensation plans, Taxation, Veterans, Veterans' employment
Latest Action: 01/24/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1070-1071) Bill TextA bill to provide pay protection for members of the Reserve and the National Guard, and for other purposes. 1/24/2007--Introduced. Helping Our Patriotic Employers at Helping Our Military Employees Act of 2007 or the HOPE at HOME Act of 2007- Entitles federal employees who are absent from their jobs for a period of more than 90 days for the purpose of performing active duty service in the uniformed services to receive the full amount of basic pay that they would have received if there had been no such interruption in their federal employment.Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employers a business tax credit for 50 percent of the actual compensation paid to Ready Reserve-National Guard employees while on active duty or hospitalized incident to such duty; (2) allow employers a tax credit for wages paid to temporary employees hired to replace Ready Reserve-National Guard employees while on active duty; (3) provide for withholding of tax on differential wage [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Business, College costs, Defense policy, Earned income tax credit, Education, Education savings accounts, Health policy, Higher education, Income tax, Individual retirement accounts, Iraq compilation, Labor, Medical care, Medical savings accounts, Military pay, Military personnel, Pensions, Replacement workers, Self-employed, Small business, Survivors' benefits, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax exclusion, Tax penalties, Taxation, Temporary employment, Wages, Welfare
Latest Action: 01/31/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1431) Bill TextA bill to amend the internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief to active duty military personnel and employers who assist them, and for other purposes. 1/31/2007--Introduced. Active Duty Military Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain small business owners (with 100 or fewer employees) and self-employed individuals a tax credit for wages paid to members of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces and to temporary replacement employees for such members while on active military duty; (2) treat differential wage payments made to members of the Ready Reserve as earned income for tax withholding and retirement plan purposes; (3) allow the rollover of military death gratuities to individual retirement accounts, health savings accounts, Archer medical savings accounts, and education savings accounts; (4) increase the standard tax deduction by $1,000 in 2007 and 2008 for members of the uniformed services on active duty for more than 30 [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 02/08/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1793-1795) Bill TextA bill to reduce income tax withholding deposits to reflect a FICA payroll tax credit for certain employers located in specified portions of the GO Zone, and for other purposes. 2/8/2007--Introduced. Work, Hope, and Opportunity for the Disaster Area Today Act - Allows small business employers (employers of not more than 100 full time employees) in specified areas of the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone to claim a credit against the employment tax liabilities of their GO Zone employees. Limits to $15,000 per employee the amount of wages eligible for such credit in any calendar quarter. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a full tax deduction for business meal and entertainment expenses (normally, only 50% of such expenses are deductible) incurred in specified areas of the GO Zone prior to January 1, 2010. Extends through 2009: (1) the increased expensing allowance for GO Zone investment property; and (2) the work opportunity tax credit for hiring Hurricane Katrina [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes. 1/24/2007--Introduced. United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act) - Establishes the United States National Health Insurance (USNHI) Program (the Program) to provide all individuals residing in the United States and in U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, prescription drugs, emergency care, and mental health services. Prohibits an institution from participating in the Program unless it is a public or nonprofit institution. Allows nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that actually deliver care in their own facilities to participate in the Program. Gives patients the freedom to choose from participating physicians and institutions. Prohibits a private health insurer from selling health insurance coverage that [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Accounting, Americans in foreign countries, Budgets, Business, Children, Corporation taxes, Customs administration, Depletion allowances, Depreciation and amortization, Energy, Finance, Financial services, Foreign corporations, Foreign policy, Foreign tax credit, Gas industry, Government contractors, Income tax, Interest, International affairs, Inventories, Oil well drilling, Pensions, Petroleum industry, Public contracts, Subsidiary corporations, Tax administration, Tax deductions, Tax evasion, Tax exclusion, Tax penalties, Tax rates, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Tax treaties, Tax-deferred compensation plans, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Trade, Unemployment insurance, User charges, Valuation
Latest Action: 06/19/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5835-5836) Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide relief to improve the competitiveness of United States corporations and small businesses, to eliminate tax incentives to move jobs and profits overseas, and for other purposes. 6/19/2008--Introduced. Manufacturing, Assembling, Development, and Export in the USA Tax Act or the MADE in the USA Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) phase in a reduction in the maximum corporate income tax rate from 35 to 28% between 2009 and 2013; (2) increase the deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities and limit such deduction to business entities other than C corporations; (3) make permanent the increased expensing allowance for depreciable business property; (4) repeal certain limitations on the exclusion for the housing expenses of U.S. citizens working abroad; (5) include all foreign-source royalties in passive category income in applying the foreign tax credit limitation; (6) apply the foreign [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide individuals temporary relief from the alternative minimum tax, and for other purposes. 6/25/2008--Passed House amended. (There is 1 other summary) Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 - Title I: Individual Tax Relief - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase and extend through 2008 the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amounts; and (2) extend through 2008 the offset of certain nonrefundable personal tax credits against regular and AMT tax liability.Title II: Revenue Provisions- (Sec. 201) Defines an "investment services partnership interest" as any interest in a partnership held by a person who provides services to a partnership by: (1) advising the partnership about investing in, purchasing, or selling specified assets; (2) managing, acquiring, or disposing of specified assets; or (3) arranging financing with respect to acquiring specified assets.[...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Became Public Law No: 110-245. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide benefits for military personnel, and for other purposes. 6/17/2008--Public Law. (There are 3 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on May 20, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Heroes Earning Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 -Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax benefits and incentives for military personnel.Title I: Benefits for Military - (Sec 101) Exempts married taxpayers who file a joint tax return from the identification requirement for the 2008 recovery tax rebate if at least one of the filers is a current member of the Armed Forces.(Sec. 102) Makes permanent the election to treat combat zone compensation as earned income for purposes of the earned income tax credit. (Sec. 103) Makes permanent the exemption from the first-time homebuyer rule for veterans using mortgage [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to conform return preparer penalty standards, delay implementation of withholding taxes on government contractors, enhance taxpayer protections, assist low-income taxpayers, and for other purposes. 4/15/2008--Passed House amended. (There are 2 other summaries) Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 2008 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the standards for imposing penalties on tax return preparers for understatements of tax to require: (1) substantial authority for a position with respect to an item on a tax return if such position was not disclosed with the return; and (2) a reasonable basis for a position that was disclosed with the return. Requires tax return preparers to have a reasonable belief that a position with respect to a tax shelter or a reportable transaction (a transaction having a potential for tax avoidance or evasion) will more likely than not be sustained on [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to regulate and tax Internet gambling. 3/4/2008--Introduced. Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an Internet gambling license fee on Internet gambling operators; (2) require such operators to file informational returns identifying themselves and the individuals placing wagers with them; (3) require withholding of tax on annual Internet gambling winnings of more than $5,000; (4) impose a 30% tax on the Internet gambling winnings of nonresident aliens; and (5) impose the excise tax on wagers on any individual who places a wager with an unlicensed Internet gambling operator.
Latest Action: 02/07/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E141) Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the additional 0.2 percent FUTA surtax. 2/7/2008--Introduced. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the 6.2% federal unemployment tax rate for calendar years 1988 through 2008 and apply the 6.0% rate.
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the withholding of income and social security taxes. 1/29/2008--Introduced. Federal Tax Withholding Act of 2008 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code to repeal withholding of tax requirements for income, railroad retirement, and social security taxes. Requires estimated tax payments for social security and railroad retirement taxes.
Also tagged in: Flexible benefit plans, Income tax, Labor, Old age, survivors and disability insurance, Payroll deductions, Pensions, Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rico, Social security, Social security taxes, Tax exclusion, Tax exemption, Taxation, Unemployment insurance, Wages
Latest Action: 11/15/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for residents of Puerto Rico who participate in cafeteria plans under the Puerto Rican tax laws an exclusion from employment taxes which is comparable to the exclusion that applies to cafeteria plans under such Code. 11/15/2007--Introduced. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from employment and unemployment taxes payments made on behalf of Puerto Rican residents participating in tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plans established under Puerto Rican law.
Also tagged in: Air pollution, Air traffic, Air traffic control, Airline employees, Airline passenger traffic, Airports, Alcohol as fuel, Appropriations, Aviation fuels, Biomass energy, Bonds, Bridges, Budgets, Business, Collection of accounts, Corporation taxes, Diesel motor, Energy, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Executive departments, Expatriation, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to transportation, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Foreign corporations, Free ports and zones, Gasoline, Gift tax, Government information, Government paperwork, Government trust funds, Great Lakes, Harbors, Highway finance, Immigration, Income tax, Individual retirement accounts, Infrastructure, Interest, Interest rates, Labor, Law, Liability for environmental damages, Marine terminals, Minnesota, Motor vehicle pollution control, New York City, New York State, Oil pollution, Pension funds, Pensions, Private aviation, Punitive damages, Railroad engineering, Railroad finance, Road construction, St. Lawrence Seaway, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax evasion, Tax exemption, Tax penalties, Tax rates, Tax returns, Tax-deferred compensation plans, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Taxpayers, Tourism, Trade, Transportation, Valuation, Water pollution
Latest Action: 11/13/2007 - Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Baucus. With written report No. 110-228. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and to extend the financing for the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and for other purposes. 11/13/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)American Infrastructure Investment and Improvement Act of 2007 - Title I: Airport And Airway Trust Fund Provisions And Related Taxes - (Sec. 101) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through FY2011 the excise taxes on aviation fuels and the transportation of persons and property by air.(Sec. 102) Extends through FY2011 the expenditure authority for the Airport and Airway Trust Fund.(Sec. 103) Imposes an excise tax on aviation-grade kerosene of 35.9 cents per gallon (4.3 cents per gallon for fuel used in commercial aviation). (Sec. 104) Increases to $16.[...] show full description
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