- September 12, 2019
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Top Senate Tax Writers Release First Round of Bipartisan Reports Examining Tax Extenders
The Senate’s top tax writers have released the first round of bipartisan task force reports examining over 40 expired and soon to be expired tax breaks known as tax extenders. Congress is expected to address these particular tax breaks, as well as temporary tax policy in general, when lawmakers return to Washington, D.C. in September.
Tax Extenders Task Forces
Senate Finance
Committee (SFC) Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Ron
Wyden, D-Ore., on August 13 released three of six reports detailing the
work of bipartisan task forces that were created to examine certain tax
breaks, which expired or will expire between December 31, 2017, and
December 31, 2019. The three remaining tax extenders task force reports
are expected to be released soon.
The reports released by Grassley and Wyden on August 13 were from the following task forces:
- Energy;
- Cost Recovery; and
- Individual, Excise and Other Temporary Tax Policy.
Next Steps
Wyden also highlighted the importance
of moving away from the notion of temporary tax provisions in general,
which Democrats and Republicans alike largely agree is not good tax
policy. “Tax policy should not be set a year or two at a time. We need
to find permanent solutions that provide certainty to families and
businesses,” Wyden said in an August 13 press release.
Grassley and Wyden introduced their bipartisan tax extenders bill earlier this year. However, Grassley reiterated on August 13 that movement of all tax legislation must be initiated in the House. Although House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., has also introduced his own tax extenders proposal, the bill is unlikely to garner enough support from Senate Republicans.
“The next step will be to put together a legislative package based on
the proposals that the taskforces received, the areas of consensus
among the taskforce members and continued bipartisan
discussions,” Grassley said in an August 13 press release. “Taxpayers
deserve predictability and clarity, and they haven’t received either for
far too long on temporary tax policy.”