A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a value added tax and to use the receipts from the tax to reduce Federal debt and to ensure the solvency of the Social Security System.
Sets forth further provisions: (1) concerning taxable transactions; (2) taxable amount, rate of tax and exemption from tax for certain transactions and certain entities, and credits; (3) administration; and (4) definitions and special rules.
Title I: Surplus Revenues - Establishes in the U.S. Treasury the Debt Reduction and Social Security Solvency Trust Fund into which amounts received from the taxes imposed under title I of this Act will be deposited. Requires the Trust Fund to be used to: (1) pay the administrative costs of collecting such taxes; (2) pay at maturity, or to redeem or buy before maturity, an obligation of the Government included in the public debt; and (3) if any moneys remain after all obligations in (2) are paid, redeemed, or bought, to transfer such moneys to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8638)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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