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S 3545 112th Congress Senate Finance and Financial Sector Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Bankruptcy Farmland Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Family Farmer Bankruptcy Tax Clarification Act of 2012

Introduced: September 13, 2012 Introduced by: Grassley, Chuck Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
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Sep 13, 2012
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6343)
Sep 13, 2012
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6342-6343)
Sep 13, 2012
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Family Farmer Bankruptcy Tax Clarification Act of 2012 - Amends chapter 12 (Debt Adjustment of a Family Farmer or Fisherman with Regular Annual Income) of federal bankruptcy law to revise the exclusion from the requirement of full payment under a discharged debtor's plan of any claim owed to a governmental unit arising as a result of the sale, transfer, exchange, or other disposition of a farm asset used in the debtor's farming operation (in which case the claim is treated as unsecured and not entitled to priority payment).

Requires the debtor's plan to provide for: (1) the treatment as a non-priority unsecured claim of any claim owed to a governmental unit by the debtor or the estate arising as a result of the sale, transfer, exchange, or other disposition of a farm asset; but also (2) the payment of that claim. Repeals the precondition that such treatment may be made only if the debtor receives a discharge in bankruptcy.

Authorizes a governmental unit to file postpetition claims relating to the disposition of farm assets.

Authorizes the trustee or the debtor, also, to file such postpetition claims (including a claim for a tax for which a return is due) if the governmental unit has not filed by a specified deadline.

Authorizes modification of the bankruptcy plan after its confirmation in order to provide for the payment of a non-priority unsecured claim presented by a governmental unit that arose after the petition filing date.


What's happening now September 13, 2012

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6343)

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