Shelter Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates new tax credits for individuals and businesses that install or improve qualifying disaster shelter property.
Who Benefits and How
Homeowners and businesses in disaster-prone areas could lower the net cost of building or upgrading protective shelter features.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The federal government would forgo tax revenue to subsidize qualifying shelter investments.
Key Provisions
- Creates a residential tax credit for qualified shelter property.
- Creates a business tax credit for qualified shelter property.
- Extends federal tax support to disaster-mitigation capital improvements.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates new tax credits for individuals and businesses that install or improve qualifying disaster shelter property.
Key Policy Areas
Taxation, Disaster Relief, Housing
Primary Purpose
This bill creates new tax credits for individuals and businesses that install or improve qualifying disaster shelter property.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Homeowners
- Businesses making shelter investments
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal taxpayers and Treasury
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Bennet (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Homeowners claiming the shelter property credit, Homeowners installing qualified shelter property
Businesses claiming the shelter property credit, Businesses installing qualified shelter property
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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