Protect Innocent Victims of Taxation After Fire Extension Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill excludes qualified wildfire relief payments from gross income for federal tax purposes while preventing double tax benefits for the same losses.
Who Benefits and How
Individuals receiving compensation for wildfire-related losses, expenses, injuries, or emotional distress could keep more of that relief tax-free.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal tax revenues would fall for qualifying payments, and taxpayers could not also claim duplicate deductions, credits, or basis increases for the same amounts.
Key Provisions
- Creates a new Internal Revenue Code exclusion for qualified wildfire relief payments.
- Defines qualified wildfire relief payments and qualified wildfire disasters to cover certain federally declared forest or range fires declared after 2014.
- Denies duplicate deductions, credits, and basis increases for amounts excluded under the new rule.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill excludes qualified wildfire relief payments from gross income for federal tax purposes while preventing double tax benefits for the same losses.
Key Policy Areas
Tax Policy, Disaster Relief, Government Administration
Primary Purpose
This bill excludes qualified wildfire relief payments from gross income for federal tax purposes while preventing double tax benefits for the same losses.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Individuals receiving compensation for qualified wildfire-related losses or damages
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal tax revenues reduced by the exclusion and taxpayers prevented from claiming duplicate tax benefits
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Padilla (for himself, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Individuals receiving qualified wildfire relief payments that become excluded from gross income
Federal tax revenues reduced by the new exclusion for wildfire relief payments
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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