United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 2821 (115th)
REACH Act
Introduced
7 June 2017
Last action
—
Status
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
11 August 2025
Summary
Research and Experimentation Advances Competitiveness at Home Act or the REACH Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for increasing research activities (known as the research and experimentation tax credit), to: increase the alternative simplified credit rate to match the rate of the regular credit; allow taxpayers to use reasonable estimation techniques in lieu of contemporaneous accounting to measure employee hours per business component; allow employees engaging in the direct supervision or direct support of research activities which constitute qualified research to be included in the research expense calculation without regard to the employee's position or management level; allow the credit to be used for research related to the adaptation of an existing business component to a particular customer's requirement or need, cost reduction, or obsolescence mitigation; and allow taxpayers to make an election for a reduced credit (in order to be allowed a full deduction for research expenses) on an amended tax return.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House · EN · 7 June 2017
Introduced in House (PDF)
Introduced in House · EN · 7 June 2017
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 7 June 2017
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2821
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2821