Main Street Fairness Act

Main Street Fairness Act

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to prevent qualified business income attributed to individuals from being taxed at a higher rate than corporate income.

(Under current law, business income attributed to individuals is taxed using individual income tax rates rather than the corporate tax rate.)

Qualified business income is all items of income, deduction, loss, or credit properly attributable to the taxpayer from the active conduct of a trade or business, including:

• a partnership in which the taxpayer holds a capital or profits interest;
• an S corporation in which the taxpayer is a shareholder;
• a sole proprietorship or an entity otherwise disregarded as separate from its sole owner, in which the taxpayer is the sole owner; and
• a trust or estate in which the taxpayer is a beneficiary.

Qualified business income does not include any item taken into account in determining net capital gain or the financial services income of partnerships.