Protect Innocent Victims Of Taxation After Fire Act
Official title: To provide an exclusion from gross income for compensation for expenses and losses resulting from certain wildfires.
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Protect Innocent Victims Of Taxation After Fire Act
This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any amount received after 2019 and before 2026 by an individual taxpayer as a qualified wildfire relief payment. The bill defines such payment as compensation for expenses or losses incurred as a result of a federally declared forest or range fire disaster.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4970: Protect Innocent Victims Of Taxation After Fire Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-4970/
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