PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 4080 (99th)

Farm Tax Relief Act of 1986

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

29 January 1986

Last action

Status

Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

29 August 2025

Summary

Farm Tax Relief Act of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from income any gain from the sale of farm property by insolvent farmers where substantially all of the proceeds from the sale or exchange are applied to the indebtedness of the taxpayer. Provides that gross income does not include any income resulting from a discharge of indebtedness of a farmer who: (1) has a debt to asset ratio in excess of 70 percent; and (2) earned 50 percent or more of his gross income in the preceding taxable year in the trade or business of farming. Prohibits any investment tax credit recapture on sales of farm property by insolvent farmers.

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

1 official file

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.