Job Protection Act of 2004
Latest action · Feb 25, 2004 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 25, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Permits a foreign corporation that elected to be treated as a domestic corporation to revoke such election and be treated as a domestic corporation transferring its property to a foreign corporation with no gain recognized on such transfer.
Provides: (1) a transitional 2004 through 2006 sliding-scale deduction for an FSC/ETI beneficiary based on the corporation's 2001 FSC/ETI benefit; and (2) special rules for 2004 and for fiscal year taxpayers. Defines "FSC/ETI benefit."
Allows a deduction for income attributable to U.S. production activities equal to ten percent of qualified production activities. Provides a 2004 through 2007 phase-in period. Defines "qualified production activities income" as the product of: (1) the portion of the modified taxable income attributable to domestic activities; and (2) the domestic/ worldwide fraction.
Sets forth related provisions with respect to: (1) determination of income attributable to domestic production activities; (2) domestic production gross receipts; (3) qualifying production property; (4) the domestic/worldwide fraction; and (5) special rules.
Amends the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to extend, from 2006 to 2008, the provisions allowing for increased expensing of small business assets.
Amends certain tax shelter provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) place limits on the transfer or importation by a corporation of built-in losses; (2) prohibit allocation of any decrease in the adjusted basis of partnership property to stock in a corporation that is a partner in such partnership; (3) repeal special rules for financial asset securitization investment trusts (FASITS); (4) expand the definition of a disqualified debt instrument for purposes of the disallowance of interest deductions on certain corporate debt instruments, (5) expand the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to disallow tax benefits derived from stock transfers designed to evade taxes; and (6) modify certain rules relating to tax treatment of income of passive foreign investment companies. Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) to extend provisions imposing fees for certain customs services through FY 2006 and fees for processing of merchandise through FY 2013.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2004Introduced in House
- Feb 25, 2004Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
- Accounting
- Administrative fees
- Affiliated corporations
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agriculture and Food
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Capital gains tax
- Commerce
- Computer software
- Corporate debt
- Corporate mergers
- Corporate reorganizations
- Corporation taxes
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Customs administration
- Depreciation and amortization
- Economics and Public Finance
- Export subsidies
- Farm produce
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foreign corporations
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Income tax
- Interest
- Losses
- Manufacturing industries
- Minimum tax
- Motion pictures
- Mutual funds
- Partnerships
- Pornography
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Small business
- Sound recording and reproducing
- Stockholders
- Stocks
- Subsidiary corporations
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax evasion
- Tax exclusion
- Taxation
- Taxation of foreign income
- User charges
- Valuation
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