Thread: House forced to re-vote on tax bill over 3 provisions that violate Senate rules

Breaking News:House forced to re-vote on tax bill over 3 provisions that violate Senate rules

The Latest: House forced to revote on GOP tax bill Wednesday


Associated Press•December 19, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the push in Congress to pass a sweeping tax cut bill (all times local):

4:50 p.m.

Democrats say three provisions in the Republican $1.5 trillion tax bill violate Senate rules and will likely be removed before that chamber votes on the measure.

The House approved the legislation Tuesday. But this means the House will have to vote again on the legislation once it's been amended and approved by the Senate.

Senate passage was expected Tuesday night or early Wednesday. GOP House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office says the House would reconsider the bill Wednesday morning and send it to President Donald Trump for his signature.

Democrats said the Senate parliamentarian had found three items that violated Senate rules.

These included one provision that would let families use tax-advantaged 529 accounts for home-schooling expenses.

The problem was revealed by Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden.

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CBS NEWS December 19, 2017, 2:44 PM

House must revote on approved final GOP tax bill, fearing Byrd rule violations

Last Updated Dec 19, 2017 5:05 PM EST

The House will revote on the bill it passed to much fanfare Tuesday afternoon, fearing procedural violations in the version it already passed.

The vote will likely take place Wednesday. The Senate is still expected to take up the bill later Tuesday evening.

Several provisions in the House-passed overhaul appear to violate the procedural rules of the Senate, according to Democrats, and the Senate will need to vote on whether to waive the rules and keep those provisions in the bill, which takes 60 votes. Republicans will most likely lose those votes, striking the contested provisions from the bill and changing the language of the legislation. After the bill gets a final stamp of approval in the Senate, the bill will return to the house for a revote, likely Wednesday morning.

One possible violation involves the use of 529 savings accounts for home-schooling, and private elementary and high schools. Another exempts colleges from a new endowment tax if they have fewer than 500 students paying tuition. Another objection appears technical in nature, as the bill repeals a section by its number, instead of the title of the section.

The news of a revote comes after much fanfare upon the bill's passage in the House. House members approved the bill in a 227-203 vote. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin sat in the Speaker's box inside the chamber, observing the vote.

"This is the greatest example of a promise being made and promise being kept," Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said at a press conference a few hours before the vote.

GOP lawmakers from both chambers struck a deal last week on the tax plan and released the legislative text on Friday.

The tax plan also includes a repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate.

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Here are the details of the final tax agreement, according to highlights from the conference committee:

• Eliminates penalty under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance
  
• Lowers corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent (higher than the original 20 percent in the House and Senate bills)
  
• Reduces top effective marginal tax rate for S corporations to a top rate of 29.6 percent, allowing for a 20 percent tax deduction that applies to the first $315,000 of joint income earned by all S-corporations
  
• Eliminates corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); increases the exemption amount from the AMT for individuals
  
• Keeps seven individual tax brackets, although those brackets would change.
  
• Continues to exempt the value of tuition waivers from taxes (the GOP had considered counting tuition waivers as income, and thus, taxable.)
  
• Increases the refundable portion of the child tax credit to $1,400, thanks to Sen. Marco Rubio's insistence. The overall child tax credit will increase from $1,000 to $2,000.
  
• Roughly doubles the standard deduction, from $6,350 to $12,000 for individuals, and from $12,700 to $24,000 for married couples filing jointly
  
• Preserves the child adoption tax credit
  
• Allows filers to write off the cost of state and local taxes, but only up to $10,000. Filers must choose from among sales, income and property taxes for the deduction, instead of being able to deduct all local taxes.
  
• Preserves the mortgage interest deduction for all homeowners with existing mortgages, and for homeowners with new mortgages, the home mortgage interest deduction will be available up to $750,000
  
• Preserves the charitable deduction as it is
  

The GOP claims the bill will mean a $2,059 tax cut for a family of four earning the median family income of $73,000.

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