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Individual tax brackets: The Senate bill would maintain the current seven individual brackets, but lower the rates and change the income levels to which they apply. Those changes end after 2025.
H.R.4351: To provide individuals temporary relief from the alternative minimum tax (AMT), via an offset of nonrefundable personal tax credits. (The AMT was originally intended to apply only to people with very high incomes, to ensure that they paid a fair amount of income tax. As inflation occurred, more people became subject to the AMT, and now it applies to people at upper-middle-class.
Veterans of past tax-policy fights are stunned by the speed with which this Congress has been able to act. The final Senate vote came less than a month after the proposal was introduced; the House.
The Senate's bill originally proposed getting rid of the Alternative Minimum Tax, or AMT. The newest version keeps the AMT in order to help pay for some of the other last-minute changes.
The final Senate plan would scale down, rather than eliminate, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for individuals and keep the current corporate AMT. One Democratic amendment was adopted. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on a 52-48 vote was able to strike language that would exempt certain colleges and universities that opt out of federal funding from.
House: Phases out the estate tax entirely — to the benefit of the 5,000 or so estates that, under current law, are large enough to even be subject to the tax on an annual average. ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX Senate: The AMT is aimed at ensuring that higher-earning people pay at least some tax. The Senate bill doesn’t repeal it but reduces the.
Both the House and Senate bills would eliminate the state and local tax deduction (SALT), which lets people write off their property taxes and other municipal bills. A lot of cities and towns are.