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S 2214 97th Congress Senate Taxation Automobiles Consumer credit Corporations and Stocks Dividends Finance and Financial Sector Higher education Housing and Community Development Income tax Interest Securities and Investments Stocks Tax deductions Tax exclusion

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a partial exclusion for dividends and interest received and to eliminate the deduction for consumer interest paid or accrued.

Introduced: March 16, 1982 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 7, 1982
Subcommittee on Savings, Pensions, and Investment. Hearings held.
May 7, 1982
Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management. Hearings held.
Mar 19, 1982
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB; Treasury Department.
Mar 16, 1982
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 16, 1982
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the exclusion from gross income of interest received by a taxpayer which was to take effect in 1985. Replaces such exclusion with a limited exclusion from gross income of interest and dividends received by a taxpayer after 1982. Limits such exclusion to 25 percent of the lesser of $2,000 ($4,000 for joint returns) or the net interest and dividend income of the taxpayer.

Provides special rules for such exclusion for regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts.

Restricts the income tax deduction for interest paid by a taxpayer to interest paid on: (1) acquiring, constructing, or rehabilitating property used as a dwelling unit; (2) acquiring a passenger automobile; (3) carrying on a trade or business; (4) higher education expenses; or (5) certain investments.

Limits such deduction to a specified percentage of interest paid in taxable years 1982 through 1984.

What's happening now May 7, 1982

Subcommittee on Savings, Pensions, and Investment. Hearings held.

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