A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the indexation of individual income tax brackets, and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of Labor to report to the Secretary of the Treasury the average rate of increases in prices which occurred during the four previous quarters ending on September 30. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the dollar amounts in each tax bracket for the following year by the percentage increase in the price levels as reported. Directs the Council on Wage and Price Stability to study the impact of indexing individual income tax brackets according to the rate of inflation and to report to Congress and the President with appropriate recommendations. Provides that this Act shall apply to taxable years 1979 through 1981.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 24 May 1978

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