Paying a Fair Share Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Paying a Fair Share Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Finance, Labor.
Who Benefits and How
environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Paying a Fair Share Act of 2025.
- Section id276604876F144FA8A13C72594C224690: 2. Fair share tax on high-income taxpayers Subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new...
- Section idAF12D535D60E42C0B87D38DC03489DCA: 59B. Fair share tax In the case of any high-income taxpayer, there is hereby imposed for a taxable year (in addition to any other tax imposed by this subtitle)...
- Section id6FEE9414EE3F4E5D89866AAF7DC7A3AF: 3. Sense of the Senate regarding tax reform It is the sense of the Senate that— Congress should enact tax reform that repeals unfair and unnecessary tax...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Paying a Fair Share Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Finance, Labor
Primary Purpose
This bill, Paying a Fair Share Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Whitehouse (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Van …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "federal_implementing_agencies"
- → Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill
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