Bill Details
HR.574 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-21 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced Date
2025-01-21
Policy Area
Taxation
Committees
View committees (1)
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (20)
- Rep. Estes, Ron [R-Kansas-4]
- Rep. LaHood, Darin [R-Illinois-16]
- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-New York-24]
- Rep. Hern, Kevin [R-Oklahoma-1]
- Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-Florida-16]
- Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-Texas-24]
- Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-Iowa-4]
- Rep. Miller, Carol D. [R-West Virginia-1]
- Rep. Miller, Max L. [R-Ohio-7]
- Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-Idaho-1]
- Rep. Collins, Mike [R-Georgia-10]
- Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-South Carolina-1]
- Rep. Carey, Mike [R-Ohio-15]
- Rep. Kustoff, David [R-Tennessee-8]
- Rep. Smucker, Lloyd [R-Pennsylvania-11]
- Rep. Fallon, Pat [R-Texas-4]
- Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-Utah-1]
- Rep. Guest, Michael [R-Mississippi-3]
- Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-Nebraska-3]
- Rep. Schweikert, David [R-Arizona-1]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would make a business tax break permanent that lets companies deduct the full cost of certain property right away instead of spreading the deduction over many years. In plain terms, it would allow businesses to write off eligible investments as soon as they are made, which is meant to encourage more spending on equipment, buildings, and some other property used in business. The bill also updates the tax code so the deduction is treated as 100% for qualifying property, and it removes older phase-out rules and deadlines tied to this tax break.
- It would permanently allow “full expensing” for qualified property, meaning businesses could deduct the full cost in the year they place the property in service.
- The bill applies this rule to property placed in service after September 27, 2017, and also covers certain plants that are planted or grafted.
- It makes related changes to other parts of the tax code so the deduction rules match this permanent 100% write-off.
- It also changes a rule for certain property used in long-term contracts, limiting it to property with a recovery period of 7 years or less.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 574 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 574
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently allow a tax
deduction at the time an investment in qualified property is made, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 21, 2025
Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Estes, Mr. LaHood, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Hern
of Oklahoma, Mr. Buchanan, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Feenstra, Mrs. Miller of
West Virginia, Mr. Miller of Ohio, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Collins, Ms. Mace,
Mr. Carey, and Mr. Kustoff) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
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A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently allow a tax
deduction at the time an investment in qualified property is made, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Accelerate Long-term Investment
Growth Now Act'' or the ``ALIGN Act''.
SEC. 2. PERMANENT FULL EXPENSING FOR QUALIFIED PROPERTY.
(a) In General.--Paragraph (6) of section 168(k) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:
``(6) Applicable percentage.--For purposes of this
subsection, the term `applicable percentage' means, in the case
of property placed in service (or, in the case of a specified
plant described in paragraph (5), a plant which is planted or
grafted) after September 27, 2017, 100 percent.''.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--
(1) Section 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is
amended--
(A) in paragraph (2)--
(i) in subparagraph (A)--
(I) in clause (i)(V), by inserting
``and'' at the end;
(II) in clause (ii), by striking
``clause (ii) of subparagraph (E),
and'' and inserting ``clause (i) of
subparagraph (E).''; and
(III) by striking clause (iii);
(ii) in subparagraph (B)--
(I) in clause (i)--
(aa) by striking subclauses
(II) and (III); and
(bb) by redesignating
subclauses (IV) through (VI) as
subclauses (II) through (IV),
respectively;
(II) by striking clause (ii); and
(III) by redesignating clauses
(iii) and (iv) as clauses (ii) and
(iii), respectively;
(iii) in subparagraph (C)--
(I) in clause (i), by striking
``and subclauses (II) and (III) of
subparagraph (B)(i)''; and
(II) in clause (ii), by striking
``subparagraph (B)(iii)'' and inserting
``subparagraph (B)(ii)''; and
(iv) in subparagraph (E)--
(I) by striking clause (i); and
(II) by redesignating clauses (ii)
and (iii) as clauses (i) and (ii),
respectively; and
(B) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ``planted
before January 1, 2027, or is grafted before such date
to a plant that has already been planted,'' and
inserting ``planted or grafted''.
(2) Section 460(c)(6)(B) of such Code is amended by
striking ``which'' and all that follows through the period and
inserting ``which has a recovery period of 7 years or less.''.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take
effect as if included in section 13201 of Public Law 115-97.
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