A bill to amend the effective date provision of section 403(b)(3) of the Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-223) to further defer the effective date of certain provisions providing for the recognition as income of LIFO inventory amounts.

Amends the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 to delay until December 31, 1982, the effective date of the requirement that in cases of corporate liquidations a corporation inventorying goods under the last-in, first-out (LIFO) method of accounting treat the LIFO recapture amount with respect to distributed inventory assets as gain from the sale of such assets.