113 HR 5578 IH: Employer Participation in Refinancing Act U.S. House of Representatives 2014-09-18 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5578 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 18, 2014 Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance to employer payment of interest on certain refinanced student loans.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Employer Participation in Refinancing Act.

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Exclusion for employer payment of interest on certain refinanced student loans

(a)

In general

Paragraph (1) of section 127(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking and at the end of subparagraph (A), by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C), and by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph: (B)the payment by an employer, whether paid to the employee or to a lender, of any indebtedness of the employee under a qualified education refinance loan or any interest relating to such a loan, and. (b)

Qualified education refinance loan

Subsection (c) of section 127 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (8)

Qualified education refinance loan

The term qualified education refinance loan means any indebtedness used solely to refinance a qualified education loan (within the meaning of section 221(d)(1)) with respect to which the lender offers the borrower protection in the event of unemployment or financial hardship (as reasonably determined by the lender, including periods of forbearance or career assistance).. (c)

Conforming amendment; denial of double benefit

Paragraph (1) of section 221(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting before the period the following: , or for which an exclusion is allowable under section 127 to the taxpayer's employer by reason of the payment by such employer of any indebtedness on a qualified education loan of the taxpayer. (d)

Effective date

The amendments made by this section shall apply to expenses paid after December 31, 2014.