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The Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (or TIPRA, Pub. L. 109–222 (text), 120 Stat. 345) is an American law, which was enacted on May 17, 2006. This bill prevents several tax provisions from sunsetting in the near future.
Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a legal context. The rates and merits of the various taxes, imposed by the authorities, are attained via ...
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982; Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005; Tax Reduction Act of 1975; Tax Reduction and Simplification Act of 1977; Tax Reform Act of 1969; Tax Reform Act of 1976; Tax Reform Act of 1986; Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006; Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act; Tax ...
A poll tax, also called a per capita tax, or capitation tax, is a tax that levies a set amount per individual. It is an example of the concept of fixed tax. One of the earliest taxes mentioned in the Bible of a half-shekel per annum from each adult Jew (Ex. 30:11–16) was a form of the poll tax. Poll taxes are administratively cheap because ...
The Tax Reform Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91–172) was a United States federal tax law signed by President Richard Nixon on December 30, 1969. Its largest impact was creating the Alternative Minimum Tax , which was intended to tax high-income earners who had previously avoided incurring tax liability due to various exemptions and deductions.
This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in the Revenue Act of 1862. [9] After the war when the need for federal revenues decreased, Congress (in the Revenue Act of 1870) let the tax law expire in 1873. [10] However, one of the challenges to the validity of this tax reached the United States Supreme Court in 1880. In Springer v.
Those who are subject to the tax will pay 3.8 percent on the lesser of the following: their net investment income or the amount by which their modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) extends beyond ...
The Doctrine of Cash Equivalence states that the U.S. Federal income tax law treats certain non-cash payment transactions like cash payment transactions for federal income tax purposes. [1] The doctrine is used most often for deciding when cash method (as opposed to accrual method ) taxpayers are to include certain non-cash income items.