A bill to reduce the Federal budget deficit by creating a surtax on high income individuals and eliminating big oil and gas company tax loopholes.
Emergency Deficit Reduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an additional 5.4% tax on individual taxpayers whose modified adjusted gross income exceeds $1 million ($2 million in the case of a joint return); (2) repeal the amortization of intangible and drilling and development costs for oil, gas, and geothermal wells; (3) repeal the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells; and (4) deny a tax deduction for income attributable to the domestic production of oil, natural gas, or primary products thereof.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1555-1557)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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