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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. RUPPERSBERGER:H.R. 4085.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted toCongress under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 of the UnitedStates Constitution.[Page H8042]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Tax Policy Transparency Act </b></p> <p>This bill requires the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to make publicly available an analysis of the effects of major tax legislation, including: (1) a distributional analysis, (2) a dynamic distributional after-tax wage income analysis, and (3) a written summary of the results of the analyses. </p> <p>During the 10-year period after major tax legislation is enacted into law, the JCT must submit to Congress annual updates for the estimates included in the analyses.</p> <p>&quot;Major tax legislation&quot; includes legislation for which the estimate provided by the JCT and the Congressional Budget Office under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 incorporates the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables (commonly known as dynamic scoring). </p>]]></text>
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