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S 2687 115th Congress Senate Taxation Bank accounts, deposits, capital Capital gains tax Charitable contributions Commuting Disability and paralysis Egypt Employee benefits and pensions Gambling Health care costs and insurance Higher education Housing finance and home ownership Income tax credits Income tax deductions Income tax exclusion Income tax rates Inflation and prices Interest, dividends, interest rates Marriage and family status Middle East

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax provisions of the tax reform law, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 17, 2018 Introduced by: Cruz, Ted Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 17, 2018
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent several tax provisions that were enacted in 2017 and are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025.

The bill makes permanent provisions that

  • reduce individual tax rates,
  • modify the taxation of the unearned income of children,
  • allow a deduction for qualified business income of pass-through entities,
  • increase the standard deduction,
  • increase and modify the child tax credit,
  • increase the limitation for certain charitable contributions,
  • allow additional contributions to ABLE accounts (tax-favored accounts designed to enable individuals with disabilities to save for and pay for disability-related expenses),
  • allow certain members of the Armed Forces in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt to receive combat zone tax benefits,
  • reduce the adjusted gross income threshold for the medical expense deduction,
  • exclude from gross income discharges of student loan debt due to the death or disability of the student,
  • repeal the deduction for personal exemptions,
  • limit individual deductions for state and local taxes,
  • limit the mortgage interest deduction,
  • double the estate and gift tax exemption amount,
  • increase the alternative minimum tax exemption amount for individuals, and
  • repeal or limit several other deductions and exclusions.

The bill also modifies (1) the capital gains tax brackets, and (2) the tax filing requirements for married taxpayers.

What's happening now April 17, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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