A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase to 32 cents per pack the excise taxes on cigarettes and to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for the use of the increased cigarette tax revenues for purposes of the medicare and medicaid programs and to reduce the Federal deficit.
Smoking, Medicare/Medicaid, and Alternative Revenue Tax Act of 1985 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on cigarettes from: (1) $8 to $16 for small cigarettes; and (2) $16.80 to $33.60 for large cigarettes. Provides for a cost-of-living adjustment for such excise tax in fiscal years after FY 1986. Imposes a floor stock excise tax on small and large cigarettes.
Appropriates 25 percent of the revenues raised by such additional taxes to each of: (1) the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Medicare); (2) the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (Medicare); and (3) the State share of Medicaid costs.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that there is no need for Medicare Part B premiums to pay for a greater proportion of program costs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the remaining 25 percent of the revenues raised by such additional excise tax should be used to reduce the Federal cost of Medicaid and should thereby reduce the Federal deficit.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Referred to Subcommittee on Health.
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