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<title>Innovation, Research, and Manufacturing Act</title>
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<action-date>2013-12-03</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Innovation, Research, and Manufacturing Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for increasing research activities, to: (1) increase such credit (from the sum of 20% of the excess of qualified research expenses for the taxable year over the base amount, 20% of the basic research payments, and 20% of the amounts paid by the taxpayer in carrying on any trade or business during the taxable year to an energy research consortium for energy research to the sum of 30% of each of those); (2) make such credit permanent; and (3) allow such credit to offset the employment taxes of an eligible small employer, as defined by the Small Business Act. </p>]]></summary-text>
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