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HOUSE 3954117th CongressReferred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2021

Last Action
7/20/2021

Actions

  • 2021-07-20Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
  • 2021-06-16Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2021-06-16Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2021-06-16Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 2021-06-16Introduced in House
  • 2021-06-16Introduced in House

CRS Summary

As of 2021-06-16 (00)

Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2021

This bill sets forth tax relief provisions for taxpayers residing in a disaster zone. Specifically, the bill

  • allows penalty-free qualified disaster distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans up to $100,000;
  • allows recontributions of distributions for home purchases cancelled due to disasters;
  • increases to $100,000 the limit on loans from retirement plans not treated as distributions;
  • allows an employee retention tax credit for 40% of wages paid by employers affected by a disaster;
  • expands eligibility for disaster-related personal casualty losses;
  • allows exclusions from gross income, for income tax purposes, of amounts received from state-based catastrophe loss mitigation programs and emergency agricultural assistance;
  • suspends the limitation on corporate charitable contributions;
  • allows the Small Business Administration to award grants to accomodate extraordinary occurrences having a catastrophic impact on small business concerns; and
  • allows a new tax credit for 30% of qualified wildfire mitigation expenditures.

Subjects

  • Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
  • Business expenses
  • Charitable contributions
  • Disaster relief and insurance
  • Employee benefits and pensions
  • Energy storage, supplies, demand
  • Fires
  • Forests, forestry, trees
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Homelessness and emergency shelter
  • Housing finance and home ownership
  • Income tax credits
  • Income tax deductions
  • Income tax exclusion
  • Motor fuels
  • Natural disasters
  • Residential rehabilitation and home repair
  • Small Business Administration
  • Small business
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