Senate Scheduled to Begin Summer Recess at the End of Next Week

Washington, D.C. (Jul 30) – With Congress set to begin work in their home states during Summer Recess, it seems very unlikely Senate Republicans will allow any further assistance in the form of legislation to move off the Senate floor. The likelihood of further assistance to the nation’s long-term unemployed be considered or passed in terms of unemployment extensions prior to the break appears impossible.

The House is currently working on several bills including the Closing Tax Loopholes Act that will end the flood of American jobs from being sent offshore, and plants moved overseas. The bill would eliminate provisions such as the, Foreign Tax Credit that was designed to prevent double taxation of income earned aboard however, corporate America discovered it’s wide advantages, essentially schemes that shifted the burden of taxation back onto the taxpayer.

The abuse allowed companies to offshore jobs therefore; operate with little to no tax liabilities. In essence, it became such an abused system; large corporations found they could save billions in tax dollars by simply closing plants on U.S. soil and move operations to foreign entities. In order to put an end of these abuses, the Obama Administration plans on cracking down on corporations that split tax credits from the income from foreign tax, allowing them to take advantage of the foreign tax credit to reduce their U.S. taxes even though the foreign income remains overseas.

Republicans have been fighting hard to keep these Bush era tax incentives in place in fact, are seeking to expand these types of loopholes therefore encouraging large corporations to shut down operations here in the United States and shift manufacturing facilities, call centers, and other American jobs overseas.

Closing this type of Tax Loophole would offset the budget by at least $11.6 billion dollars of taxpayer’s monies, and hopefully create millions of jobs lost to this type of abuse over the last ten years.

Another important provision of the bill, yet another provision the Republican Party strongly objects to is, curtailing The Gift Rule Loophole. This provisions is designed to limit the type of tax that allows rich families to pass on wealth while cutting their estate and gift taxes. Closing this loophole would save at least $5.3 billion dollars otherwise passed on to America’s lower and middle classes in the form of tax increases.

Another important tax loophole rescinded would be the, Crude Tall Oil credit that allowed paper mills to claim a biodiesel tax credit for burning a byproduct known as, “crude tall oil,” essentially a waste by-product of paper manufacturing. The bill would limit the tax credit to those fuels that are not highly corrosive, or those fuels that can burned in cars, or home heating applications.

This bill is 100 percent paid for thusly, satisfying the Republican Party’s claims that all bills must be paid for under the PayGo rule re-enacted early this year. The PayGo act was originally a measure introduced by President Clinton to keep the Republican majority in Congress in check. Eliminating Republicans from pouring on pork projects and tax breaks for their wealthy campaign donors and friends. PayGo was quickly rescinded during the Bush administration sending the nation into a downward, almost irreversible economic spiral.

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