From Debbie Niwa: I have no problem with the idea of eliminating
the IRS, but I vaguely recall that previously there were serious drawback
with the concept of a "national sales tax" (something to do with likely
resulting in a much higher net amount of taxes we would pay?)
(Note to home schoolers -- don't miss S.83 regarding home school education
expenses.)
For details on individual bills, do a bill
search at <
http://thomas.loc.gov >
(be sure to select the "111th Congress").
[All emphasis in summary has been added]
H.R.28 : . . . to increase the deduction for certain expenses of elementary
and secondary school teachers to $500 and to extend it through 2011.
Sponsor: Rep Biggert, Judy [IL-13] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.53 : ... to deny refinery expensing to owners of refineries that are
permitted to increase the discharge of pollutants into the Great Lakes.
Sponsor: Rep Kirk, Mark Steven [IL-10] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.55 : . . . to allow employers a refundable credit against income tax
for 50 percent of the employer's cost of providing tax-free transit passes
to employees.
Sponsor: Rep Kirk, Mark Steven [IL-10] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.85 : To provide permanent relief from the marriage penalty under the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Sponsor: Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (4)
H.R.87 : . . . to allow taxpayers to make contributions to the Federal
Government on their income tax returns.
Sponsor: Rep Campbell, John [CA-48] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.94 : . . . to repeal the cap on the cover over of tax on distilled
spirits to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Sponsor: Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.95 : . . . to assist in the recovery and development of the Virgin
Islands by providing for a reduction in the tax imposed on distributions
from certain retirement plans' assets which are invested for at least 30
years, subject to defined withdrawals, under a Virgin Islands investment
program.
Sponsor: Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.96 : . . . to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for
farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate
tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Conaway, K. Michael [TX-11] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.99 : . . . to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of
income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes,
reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for
individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis
of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating
tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills,
repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction
for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for
other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Dreier, David [CA-26] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.100 : . . . to provide a credit for the State and local sales taxes
paid on the purchase of an automobile.
Sponsor: Rep Dreier, David [CA-26] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.101 : . . . to allow all individuals, whether or not first-time
homebuyers, a refundable income tax credit for the purchase of a residence
during 2009 or 2010.
Sponsor: Rep Dreier, David [CA-26] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.106 : . . . to allow individuals a refundable credit for higher
education expenses.
Sponsor: Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA-2] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (6)
H.R.115 : . . . to provide for tax exempt qualified small issue bonds to
finance agricultural processing property.
Sponsor: Rep Fortenberry, Jeff [NE-1] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.120 : . . . to allow the alternative motor vehicle personal credit
against the alternative minimum tax.
Sponsor: Rep Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [NJ-11] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors
(0)
H.R.142 : . . . to require the Secretary of the Treasury to notify the
Secretary of Homeland Security of employer returns showing the employment of
individuals not authorized to be employed in the United States, to notify
the employers that they must terminate the employment of those employees, to
provide an opportunity for those employees to contest the information, and
to establish a procedure for determining whether individuals who are not
authorized to be employed in the United States are so employed.
Sponsor: Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.153 : . . . to provide for tax-favored unemployment savings accounts,
and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.154 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code to exclude certain amounts of
severance payments from gross income.
Sponsor: Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.155 : . . . to suspend the taxation of unemployment compensation for 2
years.
Sponsor: Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (5)
H.R.161 : . . . to repeal the 1993 increase in taxes on Social Security
benefits.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (6)
H.R.162 : . . . to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security
benefits.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.163 : . . . with respect to the purchase of prescription drugs by
individuals who have attained retirement age, and to amend the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs
and the sale of such drugs through Internet sites.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/6/09)Cosponsors (0)
H.R.173 : . . . to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax.
Sponsor: Rep Salazar, John T. [CO-3] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (8)
H.R.184 : . . . to provide a business credit relating to the use of
clean-fuel and fuel efficient vehicles by businesses within areas designated
as nonattainment areas under the Clean Air Act.
Sponsor: Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.189 : . . . to allow taxpayers to designate income tax overpayments as
contributions to the United States Library Trust Fund.
Sponsor: Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.198 : . . . to allow a deduction for amounts paid for health insurance
and prescription drug costs of individuals.
Sponsor: Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.199 : . . . to exclude from gross income certain interest amounts
received by individuals.
Sponsor: Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.212 : . . . to extend bonus depreciation for 2 years.
Sponsor: Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.214 : . . . to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home
purchases.
Sponsor: Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.218 : . . . to provide a nonrefundable personal credit to individuals
who donate certain life-saving organs.
Sponsor: Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.237 : . . . to allow a refundable credit to military retirees for
premiums paid for coverage under Medicare Part B.
Sponsor: Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.267 : . . . to expand the availability of the Internal Revenue
Service's Taxpayer Assistance Centers.
Sponsor: Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors
(0)
H.R.271 : . . . to increase the standard charitable mileage rate for
delivery of meals to elderly, disabled, frail and at risk individuals.
Sponsor: Rep Latta, Robert E. [OH-5] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.272 : . . . to provide incentives to encourage investment in the
expansion of freight rail infrastructure capacity and to enhance modal tax
equity.
Sponsor: Rep Meek, Kendrick B. [FL-17] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.273 : . . . to modify the treatment of qualified restaurant property as
15-year property for purposes of the depreciation deduction.
Sponsor: Rep Meek, Kendrick B. [FL-17] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.308 : . . . to provide a credit against tax for hurricane and tornado
mitigation expenditures.
Sponsor: Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.309 : . . . to allow certain current and former service members to
receive a refundable credit for the purchase of a principal residence.
Sponsor: Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.312 : . . . to extend the credit for electricity produced from certain
renewable resources.
Sponsor: Rep Braley, Bruce L. [IA-1] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.341 : . . . to suspend the running of periods of limitation for credit
or refund of overpayment of Federal income tax by veterans while their
service-connected compensation determinations are pending with the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs.
Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.342 : . . . to provide for an enhanced deduction for qualified
residence interest on acquisition indebtedness for heritage homes.
Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.343 : . . . to allow volunteer firefighters a deduction for personal
safety clothing.
Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.344 : . . . to allow a full deduction for meals and lodging in
connection with medical care.
Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.345 : . . . to increase the standard mileage rate for charitable
purposes to the standard mileage rate established by the Secretary of the
Treasury for business purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/8/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.361 : . . . to provide a 1-year extension of the increased expensing of
certain depreciable business assets and the special depreciation allowance
for certain business property.
Sponsor: Rep Bright, Bobby [AL-2] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.386 : . . . to simplify and improve the current education tax
incentives.
Sponsor: Rep Doggett, Lloyd [TX-25] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (16)
H.R.396 : . . . to provide that certain net capital gain of individuals who
have attained age 65 shall not be subject to tax.
Sponsor: Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.412 : . . . to allow the deduction for property taxes in determining
the amount of the alternative minimum taxable income of any taxpayer (other
than a corporation).
Sponsor: Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.422 : . . . to extend the research credit through 2010 and to increase
and make permanent the alternative simplified research credit.
Sponsor: Rep Meek, Kendrick B. [FL-17] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.424 : . . . to extend the temporary waiver of the required minimum
distribution rules for certain retirement plans and accounts for an
additional year.
Sponsor: Rep Murphy, Tim [PA-18] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.425 : . . . to prevent the alternative minimum tax from effectively
repealing the Federal tax exemption for interest on State and local private
activity bonds.
Sponsor: Rep Neal, Richard E. [MA-2] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.426 : . . . to reduce the depreciation recovery period for certain roof
systems.
Sponsor: Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [NJ-8] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (8)
H.R.432 : . . . to allow parents of murdered children to continue to claim
the deduction for the personal exemption with respect to such child.
Sponsor: Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.433 : . . . to allow employers a credit against income tax equal to 50
percent of the compensation paid to employees while they are performing
active duty service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard
and of the compensation paid to temporary replacement employees.
Sponsor: Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (13)
H.R.435 : . . . to provide a 5-year extension of the credit for electricity
produced from certain renewable resources.
Sponsor: Rep Pomeroy, Earl [ND] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.436 : . . . to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent
tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates
than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000
exemption, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Pomeroy, Earl [ND] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.446 : . . . to repeal certain limitations on the expensing of section
179 property, to allow taxpayers to elect shorter recovery periods for
purposes of determining the deduction for depreciation, and for other
purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (7)
H.R.451 : . . . to provide a 2-year extension of the credit for electricity
produced from certain renewable resources.
Sponsor: Rep Teague, Harry [NM-2] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.452 : . . . to make the child credit refundable for 5 years.
Sponsor: Rep Teague, Harry [NM-2] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.457 : . . . to restore the obligation of the Secretary of the Treasury
to invest the balance of the Highway Trust Fund in interest-bearing
obligations of the United States.
Sponsor: Rep Wittman, Robert J. [VA-1] (introduced 1/9/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.460 : . . . to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace
child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage
greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for
students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care
facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent
care assistance.
Sponsor: Rep Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [MD-2] (introduced 1/13/09)
Cosponsors (9)
H.R.473 : . . . to extend eligibility under the new markets tax credit for
community development entities created or organized in American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the
Virgin Islands.
Sponsor: Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [GU] (introduced 1/13/09) Cosponsors (4)
H.R.474 : . . . to permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the
depreciation rules for poverty used predominantly within an Indian
reservation.
Sponsor: Rep Boren, Dan [OK-2] (introduced 1/13/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.475 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code to qualify formerly homeless
youth who are students for purposes of low income housing tax credit.
Sponsor: Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] (introduced 1/13/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.497 : . . . to provide incentives for improving mine safety.
Sponsor: Rep Ellsworth, Brad [IN-8] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.507 : . . . to allow a temporary dividends received deduction for
taxable years beginning in 2008 or 2009.
Sponsor: Rep Brady, Kevin [TX-8] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (4)
H.R.517 : . . . to modify the dependent care credit to take into account
expenses for care of parents and grandparents who do not live with the
taxpayer.
Sponsor: Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (5)
H.R.518 : . . . to consolidate the current education tax incentives as one
credit against income tax for qualified tuition and related expenses.
Sponsor: Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (5)
H.R.524 : . . . to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the
standard mileage rate for use of a passenger automobile for purposes of the
charitable contributions deduction and to exclude charitable mileage
reimbursements from gross income.
Sponsor: Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (5)
H.R.525 : . . . to repeal the recapture rule of the first-time homebuyer
credit and to extend the application of the credit through 2009.
Sponsor: Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.528 : . . . to exempt certain shipping from the harbor maintenance tax.
Sponsor: Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.532 : . . . to modify the annual contribution limit for Coverdell
education savings accounts.
Sponsor: Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.536 : . . . to strengthen the earned income tax credit.
Sponsor: Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [NJ-8] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.537 : . . . to provide that the volume cap for private activity bonds
shall not apply to bonds for facilities for the furnishing of water and
sewage facilities.
Sponsor: Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [NJ-8] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.538 : . . . to reduce the earned income threshold applicable to the
refundable portion of the child tax credit and to increase the age limit for
such credit.
Sponsor: Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [NJ-8] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.541 : . . . to provide for an inflation adjustment of the base amounts
used to determine the amount of Social Security benefits included in gross
income.
Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors
(1)
H.R.543 : . . . to reduce the rate of the tentative minimum tax for
noncorporate taxpayers to 24 percent.
Sponsor: Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.544 : . . . to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement
that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to subsequent plan
years or deposited into certain health or retirement plans.
Sponsor: Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.546 : . . . to treat certain solar energy credits as refundable
credits, to allow a new refundable credit for equipment used to manufacture
solar energy property, to waive the application of the subsidized financing
rules to such property, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Mike [CA-1] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.550 : . . . to allow individuals and businesses a temporary credit
against income tax for the purchase of certain vehicles.
Sponsor: Rep Manzullo, Donald A. [IL-16] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.561 : . . . to allow a 5 year carryback of certain net operating
losses, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Markey, Betsy [CO-4] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (2)
H.R.562 : . . . to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a
taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.
Sponsor: Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (4)
H.R.564 : . . . to extend the financing of the Superfund.
Sponsor: Rep Blumenauer, Earl [OR-3] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors
(1)
H.R.571 : . . . to promote charitable donations of qualified vehicles.
Sponsor: Rep Delahunt, William D. [MA-10] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors
(0)
H.R.576 : . . . to allow a refundable investment credit, and 5-year
depreciation, for property used to manufacture solar energy property.
Sponsor: Rep Giffords, Gabrielle [AZ-8] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.590 : . . . to provide that reimbursements for costs of using passenger
automobiles for charitable and other organizations are excluded from gross
income.
Sponsor: Rep Petri, Thomas E. [WI-6] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (1)
H.R.594 : . . . to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by
imposing a tax on primary fossil fuels based on their carbon content.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors
(2)
H.R.617 : . . . to eliminate the taxable income limit on percentage
depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties.
Sponsor: Rep Boren, Dan [OK-2] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.620 : . . . to allow an increased work opportunity credit with respect
to recent veterans.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.622 : . . . to expand the credit for renewable electricity production
to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use.
Sponsor: Rep Michaud, Michael H. [ME-2] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (3)
H.R.638 : . . . to exempt from the harbor maintenance tax certain
commercial cargo loaded or unloaded at United States ports.
Sponsor: Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] (introduced 1/22/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.650 : . . . to increase the credit amount for new qualified alternative
fuel motor vehicles weighing more than 26,000 pounds and to increase the
credit for certain alternative fuel vehicle refueling properties, and for
other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Kagen, Steve [WI-8] (introduced 1/22/09) Cosponsors (0)
H.R.656 : . . . to allow certain individuals who have attained age 50 and
who are unemployed to receive distributions from qualified retirement plans
without incurring a 10 percent additional tax.
Sponsor: Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] (introduced 1/22/09) Cosponsors
(0)
S.23 : . . . to permanently extend the election to deduct State and local
sales taxes.
Sponsor: Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (5)
S.24 : . . . to strengthen the earned income tax credit.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.25 :... to ensure access to basic broadcast television after the Digital
Television Transition, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.26 : . . . to reset the income threshold used to calculate the refundable
portion of the child tax credit and to repeal the sunset for certain prior
modifications made to the credit.
Sponsor: Sen Lincoln, Blanche L. [AR] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.29 : . . . to increase the credit for the health insurance costs of
eligible individuals, to expand such credit to individuals covered under
COBRA, and to extend the period of COBRA continuation coverage for certain
individuals.
Sponsor: Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] (introduced 1/7/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.31 : . . . with respect to the proper tax treatment of certain
indebtedness discharged in 2009 or 2010, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John [NV] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.33 : . . . with respect to the proper tax treatment of certain
indebtedness discharged in 2009 or 2010, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John [NV] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.37 : . . . to permanently extend the research credit.
Sponsor: Sen McCain, John [AZ] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.44 : . . . to treat income earned by mutual funds from exchange-traded
funds holding precious metal bullion as qualifying income.
Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John [NV] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.47 : . . . . . . to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other
communication services.
Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John [NV] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (9)
S.58 : . . . to modify the application of the tonnage tax on vessels
operating in the dual United States domestic and foreign trades, and for
other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.71 : . . . to repeal the excise tax on telephone and
other communications services.
Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors
(1)
S.78 : . . . to provide a full exclusion for gain from certain small
business stocks.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.83 : . . . to expand the Coverdell education savings
accounts to allow home school education expenses,
and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.94 : . . . to provide for a nonrefundable tax credit for long-term care
insurance premiums.
Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.99 : . . . to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain stem cell
research expenditures.
Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.100 : . . . to provide a tax deduction for itemizers and nonitemizers for
expenses relating to home schooling.
Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.101 : . . . to allow expenses relating to all home schools to be qualified
education expenses for purposes of a Coverdell education savings account.
Sponsor: Sen Vitter, David [LA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.138 : . . . to repeal alternative minimum tax limitations on private
activity bond interest, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (3)
S.143 : . . . to provide for a college opportunity tax credit.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.144 : . . . to remove cell phones from listed property under section 280F.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (8)
S.155 : . . . . . . to suspend the taxation of unemployment compensation for
2 years.
Sponsor: Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (2)
S.156 : . . . to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for
a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009.
Sponsor: Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (2)
S.157 : . . . to expand the temporary waiver of required minimum
distribution rules for certain retirement plans and accounts.
Sponsor: Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.158 : . . . to expand the availability of industrial development bonds to
facilities manufacturing intangible property.
Sponsor: Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] (introduced 1/6/09) Cosponsors (3)
S.201 : . . . to extend the additional standard deduction for real property
taxes for nonitemizers for 2010.
Sponsor: Sen Barrasso, John [WY] (introduced 1/12/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.207 : . . . to allow a deduction for health insurance premiums.
Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 1/12/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.209 : . . . to modify and extend the credit for alternative motor
vehicles, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 1/12/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.210 : . . . to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace
child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage
greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for
students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care
facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent
care assistance.
Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 1/12/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.222 : . . . to increase the national limitation on qualified energy
conservation bonds and to clarify that certain programs constitute a
qualified conservation purpose, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] (introduced 1/13/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.233 : . . . to make the allowance of bonus depreciation and the increased
expensing limitations permanent.
Sponsor: Sen Alexander, Lamar [TN] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.243 : . . . to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the
standard mileage rate for use of a passenger automobile for purposes of the
charitable contributions deduction and to exclude charitable mileage
reimbursements for gross income.
Sponsor: Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (12)
S.249 : . . . to qualify formerly homeless youth who are students for
purposes of low income tax credit.
Sponsor: Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (3)
S.250 : . . . to provide a higher education opportunity credit in place of
existing education tax incentives.
Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 1/14/09) Cosponsors (12)
S.253 : . . . to expand the application of the homebuyer credit, and for
other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Isakson, Johnny [GA] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (4)
S.260 : . . . to provide for the taxation of income of controlled foreign
corporations attributable to imported property.
Sponsor: Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (12)
S.261 : . . . to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a
taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.
Sponsor: Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (2)
S.271 : . . . to provide incentives to accelerate the production and
adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and related component parts.
Sponsor: Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] (introduced 1/15/09) Cosponsors (7)
S.274 : . . . to provide an incentive to hire unemployed veterans.
Sponsor: Sen Baucus, Max [MT] (introduced 1/16/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.278 : . . . to provide for a tax credit for qualified donations of
employee services.
Sponsor: Sen Hatch, Orrin G. [UT] (introduced 1/16/09) Cosponsors (3)
S.279 : . . . to modify the limitations on the deduction of interest by
financial institutions which hold tax-exempt bonds, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] (introduced 1/16/09) Cosponsors (4)
S.284 : . . . to allow a new refundable credit for equipment used to
manufacture solar energy property, to waive the application of the
subsidized financing rules to such property, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.285 : . . . to provide that reimbursements for costs of using passenger
automobiles for charitable and other organizations are excluded from gross
income, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.287 : . . . to provide for the full deduction allowable with respect to
income attributable to domestic production activities, and for other
purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.288 : . . . to permanently extend the depreciation rules for property used
predominantly within an Indian reservation.
Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.289 : . . . to eliminate the taxable income limit on percentage depletion
for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties.
Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (1)
S.294 : . . . to extend and modify the special allowance for property
acquired during 2009 and to temporarily increase the limitation for
expensing certain business assets.
Sponsor: Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] (introduced 1/21/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.304 : . . . to stimulate business investment, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] (introduced 1/22/09) Cosponsors (0)
S.312 : . . . to allow a refundable credit against income tax for the
purchase of a principal residence by a first-time homebuyer.
Sponsor: Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] (introduced 1/22/09) Cosponsors (1)