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HR 2179 114th Congress House

PARTNER Act

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exception from the passive loss rules for investments in high technology research small business pass-thru entities.

Introduced: April 30, 2015 See on congress.gov
Taxation Accounting and auditingAdvanced technology and technological innovationsBusiness investment and capitalCapital gains tax
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 Latest action April 30, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Partnerships to Advance Revolutionary Technology and Novel Entrepreneurial Research Act or the PARTNER Act

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the definition of "passive activity," for purposes of the passive loss tax rules, any qualified research activity carried on by a high technology research small business pass-thru entity.

Defines "high technology research small business pass-thru entity" as any domestic pass-thru entity if: (1) more than 75% of the entity's expenditures are paid or incurred in connection with qualified research, or (2) more than 50% of the entity's expenditures constitute qualified research expenses. Designates a high technology research entity as a small business if such entity has 250 or fewer full-time employees and does not have aggregate gross assets in excess of $150 million.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2179: PARTNER Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2179/
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