HR 12323 · 95th Congress · Taxation

Tax Consistency Act

Introduced 1978-04-24· Sponsored by Rep. Stockman, David A. [R-MI-4]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
2
Committee
3
House Vote
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Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.(1978-04-24)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Tax Consistency Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce corporate tax rates to 16 percent of the first $25,000 of taxable income and 18 percent of so much of the taxable income that exceeds $25,000. Reduces the surtax to 22 percent of the amount that exceeds the surtax exemption. Establishes a permanent $50,000 surtax exemption for all corporations except certain controlled corporations. Repeals the investment tax credit. Repeals the provision excluding from gross income interest on the obligations of a State, a territory, or a possession of the United States, or their political subdivisions, or of the District of Columbia. Eliminates the declining balance and sum-of-the years-digit methods of computing allowable depreciation expense. Limits deductions for such depreciation to amounts determined by a replacement cost straight line method, as formulated by this Act, or by any other consistent method which does not yield an amount which exceeds the total amount allowed under the replacement cost straight line method during the first two-thirds of the property's useful life. Repeals the allowance for deductions with respect to the amortization of any certified pollution contr…

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2 Republicans