To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the tax on the net capital gain of taxpayers other than corporations, to exclude interest and dividends from gross income, and to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from individual gross income: (1) net capital gains; and (2) interest and dividends, not including dividends from farmers' cooperative associations, regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts, and employee stock ownership plans.
Repeals the 85 percent (second tier) taxation of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits. Transfers from the general fund in the Treasury to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts equal to the resultant reduction in revenues.
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Apr 11, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.