Community News and Small Business Support Act
Official title: To provide tax incentives that support local media.
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Community News and Small Business Support Act
This bill establishes a temporary business tax credit for expenses incurred by an eligible small business to advertise in local media. The bill also establishes a temporary refundable tax credit for a percentage of wages paid by an eligible employer to local news journalists. (Limitations apply.)
Under the bill, an eligible small business (a business with an average of fewer than 50 employees) may claim a tax credit for (1) 80% of local media advertising expenses, up to a maximum of $5,000, in the first year of the tax credit; and (2) 50% of such expenses, up to a maximum of $2,500, in the subsequent four years. (Other conditions and limitations may apply.)
The bill also allows an eligible employer to claim each calendar quarter a refundable tax credit against Medicare payroll taxes for (1) 50% of wages paid to a local news journalist in the first four calendar quarters of the tax credit, and (2) 30% of such wages paid in each calendar quarter in the subsequent four years.
However, under the bill, the tax credit for local news journalist wages is limited to $12,500 in wages paid per local news journalist per quarter and the wages of no more than 1,500 local news journalists may be included. Further, the tax credit may not be claimed for wages for which certain other tax credits (e.g., the tax credit for paid family and medical leave) are claimed. (Other conditions and limitations may apply.)
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- GRAYROBINSON PA
- NEWS MEDIA ALLIANCE
- NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
- GRAYROBINSON PA
- NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
- NEWS MEDIA ALLIANCE
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- Postal Regulatory Commission
- U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1753: Community News and Small Business Support Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1753/
"H.R. 1753: Community News and Small Business Support Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1753/.
H.R. 1753, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1753/.
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