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<dc:title>119 HR 4840 IH: Creative Relief and Expensing for Artistic Entertainment Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-08-01</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 4840</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250801">August 1, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="C001080">Ms. Chu</sponsor> (for herself and <cosponsor name-id="M000317">Ms. Malliotakis</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the ability to expense certain qualified productions.</official-title></form><legis-body id="H797526B347F949AEAA5BF6BCD27121F7" style="OLC"> 
<section section-type="section-one" id="HE4858A494D0E456FAE75515EB6868CE1"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Creative Relief and Expensing for Artistic Entertainment Act</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>CREATE Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section section-type="subsequent-section" id="H51AAA33648B44704BA071AA97B409883"><enum>2.</enum><header>Adjustment of provisions applicable to qualified productions</header> <subsection id="H02D3B546E49840A2A99C08F65B0235B6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Dollar limitations</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/181">Section 181(a)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by section 70434 of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/119/21">Public Law 119–21</external-xref>, is amended—</text> 
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6E746D6FF81F438BBEAE2F7CCEAE773D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>$15,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$30,000,000</quote>,</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA5A28B7DBCA34AECBE2194C9C6199195"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>by substituting <quote>$20,000,000</quote> for <quote>$15,000,000</quote>.</quote> and inserting <quote>by substituting <quote>$40,000,000</quote> for <quote>$30,000,000</quote>.</quote>, and</text></paragraph> 
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA72B92FABE304BCB9308EC951384D78E"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20CCDF282B734F27B959E3E872A56AB2"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7C2F1A2E291C41D6A4954DC2DC8515B3"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Inflation adjustment</header> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1E5DF852A2E43FB9F754FDCF4E949BE"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text>In the case of any taxable year beginning in a calendar year after 2026, each dollar amount in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) shall be increased by an amount equal to—</text> 
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56BD91566F1145ABA009373B69BEEC5C"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such dollar amount, multiplied by</text></subclause> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H579EEFD0FAEE4E129A3F82AFC219FC4D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which the taxable year begins, determined by substituting <quote>calendar year 2025</quote> for <quote>calendar year 2016</quote> in subparagraph (A)(ii) thereof.</text></subclause></clause> 
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7EC655DE644C443094114D253A78C9AF"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rounding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any increase determined under clause (i) shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $1,000.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HDEE8EA95AB1C42E897FBD6AF93E5C209"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Extension of termination</header><text>Subsection (h) of section 181 of such Code, as redesignated and amended by section 70434 of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/119/21">Public Law 119–21</external-xref>, is amended by striking <quote>December 31, 2025</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31, 2030</quote>.</text></subsection> 
<subsection id="H115C1EEB67D449C68123909895ED0B7E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall apply to productions commencing in taxable years ending after December 31, 2025.</text></subsection></section> </legis-body></bill>

