Bill Owens on Tax Reform Democratic Representative (NY-23)

Let Bush tax cuts expire

• Supports: Allowing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire.
• Supports: Cutting special interest tax loopholes (like tax benefits for companies that offshore jobs) to help pay for health care reform.
• Opposes: Taxing health care benefits.
• Opposes: Increasing taxes on the middle class in any way.

$5M estate tax exemption, to protect family farms

Minimum tax rate of 30% for those earning over $1 million.

Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012:
• Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require an individual taxpayer whose adjusted gross income exceeds $1 million to pay a minimum tax rate of 30% of the excess of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income over the taxpayer's modified charitable contribution deduction for the taxable year (tentative fair share tax).
• Establishes the amount of such tax as the excess of the tentative fair share tax over the excess of the sum of the taxpayer's regular tax liability, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) amount, and the payroll tax for the taxable year;
• Provides for a phase-in of such tax.
• Requires an inflation adjustment to the $1 million income threshold for taxable years beginning after 2013.
• Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should enact tax reform that repeals unfair and unnecessary tax loopholes and expenditures, simplifies the tax system, and makes sure that the wealthiest taxpayers pay a fair share of taxes. Source: HR3903/S2230 12-HR3903 on Apr 16, 2012

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