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H.R. 4457, America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014 1 (May 1, 2014)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo1623 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
COST ESTIMATE
May 1, 2014
H.R. 4457
America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on April 29, 2014
H.R. 4457 would amend section 179 of the Internal Revenue Code, which mostly affects
small- to medium-sized businesses, to retroactively and permanently extend from
January 1, 2014, increased limitations on the amount of investment that can be
immediately deducted from taxable income. H.R. 4457 also indexes the limitations for
inflation and expands the definition of property that qualifies for that immediate deduction.
Permanently extending to $500,000 the annual cost of property eligible for expensing
under section 179, expanding the qualifying property eligible under section 179, and
indexing the amounts for inflation, would allow firms to deduct immediately from their
taxable income the full costs of up to $500,000 in investment of certain equipment from
their taxable income, instead of spreading the costs out over time. The benefit of the
immediate expensing phases out if total qualifying investment exceeds $2 million, indexed
for inflation.
The staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimates that enacting H.R. 4457
would reduce revenues, thus increasing federal deficits, by about $73 billion over the
2014-2024 period.
The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 establishes budget-reporting and enforcement
procedures for legislation affecting direct spending and revenues. Enacting H.R. 4457
would result in revenue losses in each year beginning in 2014. The estimated increases in
the deficit are shown in the following table.
JCT has determined that the bill contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates
as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Logan Timmerhoff. The estimate was approved
by David Weiner, Assistant Director for Tax Analysis.

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