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HR 2134 99th Congress House Taxation Agriculture and Rural Affairs Corporations and Stocks Farm income Farms Income tax Tax deductions

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to limit the amount of farming losses which may offset other income.

Introduced: April 18, 1985 See on congress.gov
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Apr 18, 1985
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Apr 18, 1985
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the deductions of a taxpayer attributable to farming to the sum of: (1) the gross income of such taxpayer from the trade or business of farming for such taxable year; plus (2) $25,000. Requires the non-farm taxable income of such taxpayer to have exceeded the taxpayer's farm income in five of the preceding seven years. Provides that where the taxpayer engages in more than one trade or business of farming, all such trade or businesses shall be treated as a single trade or business.

What's happening now April 18, 1985

Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.

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