WashingtonWatch.com - Subject: Inheritance tax

S. 2856, The Optional One Page Flat Tax Act

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2856 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide taxpayers a flat tax alternative to the current income tax system....

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H.R. 4242, The Certain and Immediate Estate Tax Relief Act of 2007

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4242 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to retain the estate tax with an immediate increase in the exemption, and it would repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal....

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H.R. 4235, The Estate Tax Reduction Act of 2007

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4235 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3,000,000 exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount....

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H.R. 4172, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3,500,000

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4172 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3,500,000....

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H.R. 4042, The Family Farm, Small Business, and Home Tax Relief Act

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 4042 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the estate tax for periods before its termination in 2010 by increasing the unified credit, lowering the maximum estate tax rate, restoring the exclusion for family-owned business interests, excluding the value of the decedent's principal residence....

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H.R. 3056, The Tax Collection Responsibility Act of 2007 - Savings per Average Family: $10.50

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3056 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to use private debt collection companies, to delay implementation of withholding taxes on government contractors, to revise the tax rules on expatriation....

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H.R. 2380, The Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2007

Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 2380 would make the repeal of the estate tax permanent....

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S. 1081, The Flat Tax Act of 2007

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1081 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a flat tax only on individual taxable earned income and business taxable income....

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H.R. 1586, The Death Tax Repeal Act of 2007

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 1586 would repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes....

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H.R. 1040, The Freedom Flat Tax Act

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 1040 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide taxpayers a flat tax alternative to the current income tax system....

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H.R. 411, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent certain temporary provisions applicable to individuals, including the sales tax deduction, the child credit, the repeal of the estate tax, and the deduction for higher education expenses

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 411 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent certain temporary provisions applicable to individuals, including the sales tax deduction, the child credit, the repeal of the estate tax, and the deduction for higher education expenses....

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H.R. 242, The Social Security KidSave Accounts Act

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 242 would amend the Social Security Act to provide each American child with a KidSave Account....

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H.R. 5970, The Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act of 2006 - Savings per Average Family: $2197.96

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5970, the Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act of 2006,�would increase the estate and gift tax exemption amounts and reduce the rates, as well as extend and modify various other tax relief provisions. It also would make several changes to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, and it would increase the minimum wage.
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H.R. 5638, The Permanent Estate Tax Relief Act of 2006 - Savings per Average Family: $2078.32

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5638 makes the estate and gift tax permanent; increases the estate and gift tax credit to a $5 million effective exclusion amount, making any unused effective exclusion amount portable between spouses; and reduces rates, as well as making other changes in tax law....

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H.R. 1041, The Social Security KidSave Accounts Act - Cost per Average Family: $721.19

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Under H.R. 1041, the government would create a $2,000 account for each child born in 2006 or later when he or she receives a Social Security number. That initial deposit would come from the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund, an off-budget account. The $2,000 would increase after 2013 in step with Social Security cost-of-living adjustments. The bill would also permit voluntary contributions of up to $500 a year through age 18, including rollovers from Individual Retirement Account...

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H.R. 8, The Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005 - Savings per Average Family: $2210.29

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EDT

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