A bill to amend section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to insure its uniform application to business products.

States that any expenditure paid or incurred by a taxpayer in connection with his trade or business for the development or improvement of a product shall be treated, under the Internal Revenue Code, as a research or experimental expenditure irrespective of the nature of such product and irrespective of whether the product constitutes the result of research on a literary, historical, or similar project. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 174)