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United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Prohibits a State from imposing an income tax on any individual who is not a resident or domiciliary of such State.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Welfare and Medicaid Fiscal Assistance Program Act of 1981 - Amends Title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) and Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase the Federal medical assistance percentage payable to a State with a medical assistance plan approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Directs a State to pay, on a pro rata basis, any Federal funds received in excess of the old Federal medical assistance percentage to any political subdivision of such State which contributed under the State medical assistance plan for such quarter. Limits such payment to 100 percent of such political subdivision's contribution.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Social Security Refinancing Act - Amends titles II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to finance the payment of disability insurance benefits and hospital insurance benefits through general tax revenue, rather than through employment and self-employment tax revenues. Reduces the tax rates applicable to employers, employees, and self-employment income to finance the old age and survivors insurance program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Social Security Act to exempt employees who are members of religious faiths which oppose participation in the social security program from coverage under such program and to grant to such employees a refund of social security taxes. Exempts employers engaged in farming and their employees in cases where both are members of faiths which oppose participation in the social security system. Extends the exemption from social security taxes to self-employed members of religious groups who are opposed to participation in the social security program but not opposed to participation in private insurance plans.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the taxation of any title II benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer an income tax credit for college or vocational school educational expenses paid by the taxpayer for the education of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse or dependents. Limits such credit to $1,000 per individual for the taxable year. Includes tuition and fees required for enrollment at an educational institution and books, supplies, and equipment within the definition of "educational expenses." Excludes expenses for meals and lodging and similar personal expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the individual income tax credit for the elderly and to eliminate the adjusted gross income limitation on such credit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Service Liability Partial Self-Insurance Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction to any taxpayer furnishing professional design services for cash contributions to a service liability trust. Defines services liability as liability for tort damages attributable to negligence in, breach of warranty regarding, or defects in the professional construction or modification design of buildings or structures on real property. Limits the allowable deduction: (1) for a taxpayer with a severe service liability problem to a maximum of $100,000, or one of two specified formula sums, whichever is least; and (2) for a taxpayer with no severe liability problem to a maximum of $25,000, or one of two formula sums, whichever is least. Penalizes unauthorized distributions from such accounts except for: (1) corrective withdrawal of excess contributions; (2) distributions when a change of circumstances causes continued maintenance of such trust to have no trade or business purposes; (3) transfers of rollover amounts; (4) distributions following complete liquidation of the pertinent trade or business; and (5) certain sales deemed distributions. Limits the investment of account assets to: (1) Federal public debt securities; (2) nondefaulted State or local obligations; (3) time or demand deposits in certain Federally insured financial institutions; or (4) any other investment asset permissible under law of the State where such account is organized. Treats service liability loss reserves as amounts accumulated for the reasonably anticipated needs of a business, for purposes of avoiding the accumulated earnings tax.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt nonprofit volunteer firefighting or rescue organizations from the excise tax on sales of special fuels, automotive parts, petroleum products, and communication services.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow pensioners under a public retirement system and other retirees aged 65 or over a $5,000 exclusion from gross income for any amount received as an annuity, pension, or other retirement benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor vehicle excise tax imposed on trailers any trailer suitable for use with a light-duty vehicle for farming purposes or for transporting horses or livestock.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income interest earned on certain obligations issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer a limited income tax credit for college or vocational education expenses. Reduces the amount of such credit by one percent of the amount by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer for the taxable year exceeds $22,500. Permits such credit for tuition and fees for education above the twelfth grade level and for books, supplies, and equipment required for coursework. Excludes expenses for meals and lodging and similar personal expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt taxpayers from the payment of interest or a penalty on tax deficiencies attributable to erroneous advice obtained in writing from an Internal Revenue Service Officer or employee acting in an official capacity.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Requires the Internal Revenue Service, in any determination of whether employment is temporary or indefinite for purposes of deducting traveling expenses, to consider the decision in Frederick v. United States, 603 F. 2d 1291 (8th Cir., 1979), which directed that the taxpayer's prospects for continued employment away from home, and not merely the duration of such employment, be examined.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an income tax deduction for salaries paid to individuals for personal services.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income, estate, and gift tax deduction for contributions for the construction or maintenance of buildings which house fraternal organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit individual taxpayers an income tax deduction for a charitable contribution for permitting tax-exempt organizations which care for handicapped individuals to use a residence of the taxpayer for the care of such individuals. Specifies that the amount of such deduction shall be the rental value of the residence.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that an unmarried individual who maintains a household shall be considered a head of a household for income tax rate purposes, without regard to whether such individual has a dependent who is a member of the household.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit married individuals filing separate income tax returns an election to be taxed at rates applicable to unmarried individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit for the installation of a woodburning stove.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a parents' and students' savings account (PASS) created or organized exclusively for the purpose of paying the educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's child. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,500 per year, adjusted for inflation. Limits eligibility for such deduction to dependent's of the taxpayer, to individuals who have not attained age 21, full-time students at eligible educational institutions of higher learning or vocational schools, members of the Armed Forces on active duty, volunteers in the Peace Corps, or full-time volunteers with certain other organizations. Excludes distributions from such an account from the gross income of the payee so long as such distributions are used to defray the beneficiary's tuition, fees, books and supplies, and reasonable living expenses. Specifies sanctions for the use of account funds for other than such educational purposes. Requires the beneficiary of a PASS account to maintain certain records and file certain documents with the Secretary of the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow income tax deductions to employers for wages paid to aliens whom the employer knows to be in the United States in violation of the immigration laws.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the personal income tax exemption for individual taxpayers, spouses, dependents, the elderly, and the blind.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized exclusively for the purpose of paying the educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's child. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,000 per year, adjusted for inflation. Limits eligibility for such deduction to the taxpayer or the taxpayer's dependent child unless such child has attained age 21 or has attended an institution of higher education as a full-time student for more than four weeks in the year of his twenty-first birthday. Excludes distributions from such an account from the gross income of the payee so long as such distributions are used to defray the beneficiary's tuition, fees, books and supplies, and reasonable living expenses. Specifies sanctions for the use of account funds for other than such educational purposes. Treats qualified distributions as income to the beneficiary for the taxable year in which the beneficiary attains age 25, and for each of the following nine years, in successive apportionments equal to ten percent of the total amount of such distributions. Allows a deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized for the benefit of the taxpayer (or the taxpayer and spouse if married) for the exclusive purpose of purchasing such individual's first residence. Limits the maximum annual deduction to $1,500 ($3,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly), with a maximum lifetime deduction of $15,000 ($30,000 in the case of married individuals filing jointly). Provides for annual inflation adjustment of such amounts. Excludes distributions from such account from gross income so long as they are used exclusively for the purchase of a first residence. Provides for recapture of such distribution upon a subsequent sale of such first residence if another house is not purchased with the proceeds. Requires reduction of the $100,000 exclusion from gross income of proceeds from the sale of a principal residence by a taxpayer 55 years of age or older if such residence had been purchased with distributions from a tax-exempt housing savings account. Limits the amount of such reduction to the amount of any such distribution excluded from gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make refundable the investment tax credit for motor vehicle manufacturing equipment and machinery.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for the current fair market value of a literary, musical, or artistic composition created by the personal efforts of the taxpayer and contributed to a charitable organization. Disallows a fair market value deduction for a contribution of property which was produced while the taxpayer was a Government officer or employee if such property arose out of the performance of the taxpayer's duties. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for a fair market value deduction, a statement by the donee of such property that the property has artistic, musical, or literary value, and that the donee will use the property in a manner consistent with the purpose of its organization.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Investment Tax Credit Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a double investment tax credit for machinery and equipment placed in service in existing manufacturing plants located in high unemployment areas or in nearby areas.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a refundable income tax credit for the purchase of new passenger automobiles after December 31, 1980, and before January 1, 1982, which were manufactured by companies whose average fuel economy rating for passenger automobiles in model year 1979 equals or exceeds 120 percent of their rating for model year 1974. Establishes the amount of such credit as $500.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Motor Vehicle Tax Repeal Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on the sale of trucks, tractors, and parts and accessories for such vehicles. Permits the refund or crediting of taxes paid by the manufacturer, producer, or importer on items sold after January 1, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the unified credit against the estate tax shall not be reduced by gifts made after September 8, 1976, which are includible in the gross estate of the decedent. Limits the application of this Act to estates of decedents dying after December 31, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide identical income tax rates for single persons and married couples filing joint returns. Limits the earned income that must be reported by a married person filing a separate return to the amount actually earned by that individual.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from terminating the tax-exempt status of an educational institution for reasons of racial discrimination unless such organization has been adjudicated as racially discriminatory by a State or Federal court.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals or married couples a $5,000 exclusion from gross income for any amount received as an annuity, pension, or other retirement benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Young Families Homeownership Opportunity Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals who are saving for their first home a nonrefundable income tax credit for 20 percent of the cash contributions made during the taxable year to an individual housing account. Limits the amount of such credit to $1,000 for any taxable year and $3,000 during a lifetime. Sets forth requirements for the establishment of an individual housing account. Imposes penalties for distributions made from an individual housing account which are not used in connection with the purchase of a principal residence. Exempts interest earned on an individual housing account from income taxation. Requires the trustee of an individual housing account to make such reports regarding the maintenance of an individual housing account as the Secretary of the Treasury may require. Prohibits contributions to an individual housing account in excess of prescribed limits and imposes a tax on such excess contributions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer an income tax credit for tuition paid to an institution of higher education for the education of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse or dependents. Limits such credit to $300 per student for each taxable year. Allows an income tax credit for charitable contributions to institutions of higher education. Limits such credit to 20 percent of the taxpayer's total tax liability or $500, whichever is less (five percent or $5,000 in the case of corporations, whichever is less). Stipulates that amounts taken into account in computing the credit may not also be taken as a charitable deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Tuition Tax Relief Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer an income tax credit or deduction for tuition paid to an elementary, secondary, vocational, or higher educational institution for the education of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse or dependents. Limits the amount of the credit to 50 percent of the amount of tuition paid up to a maximum of $500. Limits the amount of the deduction to $1,000 for the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Tuition Tax Relief Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer an income tax credit or deduction for tuition paid to an elementary, secondary, vocational, or higher educational institution for the education of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse or dependents. Limits the amount of the credit to 50 percent of the amount of tuition paid up to a maximum of $500. Limits the amount of the deduction to $1,000 for the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject nonresident aliens and foreign corporations to a tax on the gain from the sale or exchange of farm or rural lands situated in the United States. Requires foreign corporations which hold United States farm lands comprising 20 percent of their assets to make reports on such holdings as the Secretary of the Treasury may require.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the taxable year of individual taxpayers from a calendar year to a year ending on June 30.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Individual Investors' Incentive Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to ten percent of the cost of domestic stock purchased by such taxpayer during the taxable year. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $1,000 ($2,000 for married individuals filing jointly). Limits such credit to one-tenth of the increase of the aggregate adjusted basis of the taxpayer's domestic stock for the taxable year. Disallows such credit if the taxpayer controls the corporation. Requires the recapture of specified amounts of such credit if any stock for which the credit is allowed is disposed of by the taxpayer within one year of purchase. Disqualifies estates, trusts, and nonresident aliens from eligibility for the credit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from implementing the proposed revenue procedure published in the Federal Register on February 13, 1979, which sets forth guidelines for determining whether private schools have forfeited their tax-exempt status through the adoption of racially discriminatory policies until Congress enacts specific guidelines for making such determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the disability and income requirements for the sick pay exclusion enacted by the Tax Reform Act of 1976. Provides an exclusion from gross income for sick pay not in excess of $100 per week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide identical income tax rates for single persons and married couples filing joint returns. Limits the earned income that must be reported by a married person filing a separate return to the amount actually earned by that individual.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to $10,000 interest income earned on savings accounts. Makes such exclusion permanent.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Economic Recovery and Job Creation Act of 1981 - Title I: Capital Cost Recovery - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals and corporations a recovery deduction for a percentage of the cost of depreciable tangible property (equipment or machinery), used in a trade or business or held for the production of income, which is placed in service after December 31, 1980. Establishes four classes and recovery periods for such property: (1) Class 1, two years; (2) Class 2, four years; (3) Class 3, seven years; and (4) Class 4, ten years. Requires assignment of property to the class which has a recovery period at least 40 percent shorter than its present midpoint useful life under the Asset Depreciation Range (ADR) system. Permits the taxpayer to elect: (1) placement of any item of property in the class with the next longer recovery period than the class to which it would otherwise belong; or (2) placement of qualified recovery property (defined as property placed in service in areas of high unemployment or used primarily in the manufacture or distribution of certain alternative fuels or energy products) in the class having the next shorter recovery period than the class to which it would otherwise belong. Defines the recovery percentage as the percentage (100 percent, 150 percent, or 200 percent) selected by the taxpayer for a class of items, divided by the number of years in the corresponding recovery period. Requires a taxpayer to establish a recovery account for each class of recovery property. Denies eligibility for a recovery deduction to livestock, property subject to amortization, property depreciable on a basis other than time, public utility property, oil or gas fired boilers, and property used predominantly outside the United States. Increases from 20 percent to 30 percent the permissible ADR variance from class life for public utility property. Revises the applicable percentage for determination of the investment tax credit to: (1) 25 percent of the basis of an asset if its useful life is between two and four year (currently, 33 1/3 percent if its useful life is between three and five years); (2) 60 percent of asset basis if its useful life is between four and seven years (currently, 66 2/3 percent if its useful life is between five and seven years); and (3) 100 percent of basis if its useful life is seven years or greater (currently the same). Sets the energy percentage and employee plan percentage for qualified recovery property at: (1) 66 2/3 percent of the basis of an asset if its useful life is between two and four years; and (2) 100 percent of basis if its useful life is four years or greater. Allows election of: (1) 20 year straight line depreciation for depreciable realty; (2) 15 year straight line depreciation for low-income housing; and (3) 15 year depreciation computed under the declining balance method at a rate not exceeding 150 percent of the straight line depreciation rate for certain qualified owner-occupied industrial and commercial buildings. Allows an irrevocable election to treat the first $40,000 ($20,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return) of expenditures for recovery property which is purchased for use in a trade or business as currently deductible non-capital expenses. Sets forth rules for treatment of the depreciation allowance for any recovery property in computing the earnings and profits of a corporation. Revises the progress expenditure rules to eliminate the useful life requirement for depreciable property constructed by or for a taxpayer for use in trade or business (qualified progress expenditure property) and to apply to such property the revised percentages for determining the investment tax credit under this Act. Allows current depreciation of any qualified progress expenditure property not yet placed in service. Increases from ten to 25 percent the rehabilitation tax credit for nonresidential structures. Title II: Targeted Jobs Credit - Revises the rules for computing credits for employment of certain new employees to include an individual as a member of a targeted group if such individual has been terminated from previous employment as a result of modernization of equipment or facilities. Title III: Treatment of Certain Federally Required Nonproductive Expenditures As Expenses - Allows taxpayers to treat federally required nonproductive expenditures as currently deductible business expenses. Defines "federally required nonproductive expenditures" as expenditures in connection with a business which are required by Federal or State law, but which do not significantly increase the profitability of the business.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals or married couples a $5,000 exclusion from gross income for any amount received as an annuity, pension, or other retirement benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Capital Investment Incentive Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 60 percent to 70 percent the noncorporate capital gains deduction from gross income. Reduces from 28 percent to 21 percent the corporate alternative minimum tax rate on capital gains.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total Federal expenditures from exceeding total revenues. Authorizes suspension of such prohibition for a congressional term in time of war or national emergency upon the concurrence of three-fourths of the Members of each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the increase of total budget outlays of the United States Government during any fiscal year to a percentage equal to the percentage increase in the gross national product during the previous calendar year. States that if the inflation rate exceeds three percent annually the increase in total outlays shall be reduced by one-fourth the difference between the inflation rate and three percent. Requires the use of any surplus in total revenues received by the Government to reduce the public debt. Allows the limit on total outlays to be changed by a three-quarters vote of both Houses of Congress, or by a two-thirds vote in the case of an emergency declared by the President. Continues Federal aid programs to States and local governments for a period of six years.